RAPE popularity and RAPE trends

A man charged in the brutal rape and strangling of a woman in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood walked out of Cook County Jail Wednesday after his required $75,000 bond was posted, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Michael Giffin, 25, allegedly raped the 26-year-old woman last Saturday after meeting her in a bar, Fox Chicago reports. Giffin allegedly went to the woman's apartment for a drin...

‘Rape tag’, discovered at a Minnesota elementary school, is a troubling game that involves moves similar to freeze tag, “except that a person had to be humped to be unfrozen.”

Scott Sorby, 21, had been released early from a jail sentence for attempted rape when he broke into Elizabetta Pecka's room through a window, battered her and attempted to rape her.

An alleged serial rapist appearing in the Alberton Magistrate's Court on Friday, said he had been previously convicted for rape.

Michael Yardley, 35, was employed by Lincolnshire Police as part of a neighbourhood policing team. His wife saw him kissing and cuddling the child in the marital home.

A WOMAN allegedly raped by a Melbourne taxi driver arrived home after a night of heavy drinking with her jeans over her shoulder, a court has heard.

A GARDA inspectorate report identifying shortcomings in the force’s handling of child sexual abuse cases has been welcome by Rape Crisis Network Ireland.

Remember when Kristen Stewart got a whole lot of shit thrown at her face for basically saying that she feels like someone needs to hand her a rape kit after the paparazzi takes her picture? Well, she continued to whisper sweet nothings into the faces of the paparazzi in Paris recently. After the human version of a skater boy's scab signed a bunch of autographs, she turned to her soulmat...

The city of Lancaster’s rate for serious crimes, including murder, robbery and rape, declined by 13% last year, according to statistics released Thursday. Last year, Lancaster saw 260 serious crimes reported per 10,000 residents, compared with 299 per 10,000 residents in 2010, city officials said. The new rate represents a reduction of more than 42% since 2007, when there were almost 450 seriou...

CHICAGO (AP) -- An inmate who says Chicago police officers tortured him into confessing to a brutal rape can present evidence of coercion that was denied at trial, the Illinois Supreme Court decided Thursday in a ruling that could have implications for as many as 20 other inmates seeking similar appeals....

UNIVERSITY bosses investigating student site which featured article condoning rape

Looks like someone has Elephant-sized problems with boundaries… Elephant Man was arrested in Jamaica under the suspicion of rape. The rapper is accused of raping a woman in his home in St. Andrew in early January. He was questioned with his lawyer present and after the interrogation, the police thought they had enough to lock him up He is [...]

NANKANA SAHIB - The main accused of the Saba Rai rape case, Shamroz, was released on Wednesday, after the two parties reached reconciliation. Saba Rai declared Shamroz innocent in her statement. The accused and the victim contracted a marriage with the consent of their families. Rai, a student of Shah Kot Commerce College, was abducted and raped on October 24, 2011. The accused was arrested ...

Hip hop star Elephant Man -- the guy behind the 2004 hit "Jook Girl" -- was arrested in Jamaica Monday on suspicion of raping a woman at his St. Andrew home earlier this month. According to local reports, police launched an investigation after the…

But for one recruit, instead of announcing his college choice at a big celebratory event at his high school, he's in jail.

Women’s rights activists have slammed Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s offer to give government jobs to educated rape victims.

Young female rape victims are failing to report the crime over fears they face being vilified in court, a leading prosecutor has warned.

Alison Saunders says jurors arrive at court with preconceptions about women which affects how they consider evidenceThe demonisation of young women is contributing to the failure to secure more convictions of suspected rapists, one of the country's leading prosecutors warns on Monday.Some victims are deterred from coming forward because they fear they will be vilified, says Alison Saunders, the...

Morning TV anchorman Greg Kelly allegedly shared more than a dozen flirty text messages with the woman accusing him of rape, according to reports Sunday, as prosecutors continued their investigation over the weekend.

It's been branded as the soap trial of the century as factory boss Frank Foster waits to see if he will be found guilty or not guilty of raping Carla Connor.

Ja, die Staffel hatte etwas -- unter anderem fielen schon in der ersten Folge die folgenden beiden markigen Sätze zur Vorstellung des Feindes:If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothing.And if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.Für gewisse WTF-threads nebenan geeignet... Sonst noch Vorschläge für den (zumindest mittelbaren...

A female UCLA student was sexually assaulted early Friday in a part of campus once colloquially known as "the rape trail." UCLA police are looking for the suspect, who was described as white, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds and about 21 years old, with short brown hair and blue eyes, according to a crime alert issued by the campus police department.

Mild and graphic violence? Nudity? RAPE? Looks like Sesame Street is suffering from a bit of urban blight. [Reddit via Buzzfeed] More »

A salsa dance instructor who worked on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" has been sentenced in Los Angeles to 10 years in prison for raping one woman and assaulting another.

Kajus Scuka, 48, raped a woman on her 54th birthday as she walked her dog in a park and groped his other victims and offered them cash for sex in Sheffield.

The son of Ray Kelly, New York's chief of police, is under investigation over rape allegations after being accused of attacking a woman he met in the street.

MOGADISHU (AlertNet) - Nurto Isak's food rations are feeding her, her three children, and -- she suspects -- the militiamen guarding the camp in Mogadishu where she and other uprooted Somalis have...

It is estimated nearly one in three female US soldiers is a victim of sexual aggression in the military, a little-known fact highlighted in a film screened at the Sundance festival.

A federal expansion of a crime definition draws attention to victims in “a cultural blind spot.”

Baraa Melhem, 20, said she was enjoying her first taste of freedom after a decade of isolation and threats of rape and abuse.

Ben Rattray knows that revolution does not always happen spontaneously. The 31-year-old entrepreneur rattles off a list of populist protests over the past year: the consumer revolt against Bank of America and Verizon’s unpopular fees, a drive to enlist the San Francisco Giants to speak out against anti-gay bullying, a petition forcing the South African government to address rape crimes. Each ca...

Ben Rattray knows that revolution does not always happen spontaneously. The 31-year-old entrepreneur rattles off a list of populist actions over the past year: the consumer revolts against Bank of America’s and Verizon’s unpopular fees, a drive to enlist the San Francisco Giants to speak out against anti-gay bullying, a petition forcing the South African government to address the rape of lesbia...

"Captain George" says Dirani's rape allegations harmed him, claims state hid evidence.

KIWI criminals convicted of serious crimes including manslaughter and rape in their home country have slipped into Australia to wage a shocking crime spree.

The suit filed by a former casino host claiming the Steelers QB raped her was resolved. Neither side said whether any money was involved.

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Lawyers for Ben Roethlisberger and a woman who accused him of raping her at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino in 2008 have reached a settlement that ends her civil lawsuit against the Steelers quarterback....

PESHAWAR – Uzma Ayub, a gang rape victim, gave birth to a baby girl at a local hospital in Peshawar at 11:45 pm on Thursday night, sources said. Bilqees Begum, the mother of Uzma, told media persons that Uzma was rushed to hospital while she was suffering pain, adding that she gave birth to a baby girl. She said both the mother and her child were in a stable condition. She said chairperson ...

PESHAWAR – Uzma Ayub, a gang rape victim, gave birth to a baby girl at a local hospital in Peshawar at 11:45 pm on Thursday night, sources said. Bilqees Begum, the mother of Uzma, told media persons that Uzma was rushed to hospital while she was suffering pain, adding that she gave birth to a baby girl. She said both the mother and her child were in a stable condition. She said chairperson ...

FOR the second time in a week the Defence Department was rocked by documents outlining murder, child pornography, rape, assault and drugs.

A contestant on the Brazilian version of Big Brother is being investigated for rape. The man is accused of having sex with fellow housemate Monique Amin live on TV while she was apparently sleeping.

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A day earlier, the program announced contestant Daniel Echaniz was being thrown out over suspicions of "gravely inadequate" behavior.

Diana Tso’s play about the Rape of Nanking needs further development to engage as theatre

Australia's military is hit by more sex scandals, after a news channel obtains documents which include allegations of assault and rape.

Casey Anthony believes her daughter may have been conceived through "date rape" after a 2004 party, according to doctors' depositions.

Rape crisis groups are angry over actress Kim Novak’s assertion that she has been "raped" by the makers of the Oscar contender “The Artist” because the film used a score from one of her old movies.

Make sure you don't start the new year off with an unwanted bang. Be proactive about monitoring your drink for date rape drugs with these DIY prevention and detection techniques.

Rape case against six UN peacekeepers may be shelved as authorities claim they cannot get victim to testify.

A US paramedic allegedly raped a woman as she lay unconscious and strapped to a stretcher on the way to a hospital.

Victim advocacy groups have long criticized the definition of “forcible rape,” in use since the 1920s, as outdated.

The United States widened its definition of rape on Friday to include assaults on men for the first time and those in which a victim is incapacitated by drugs or alcohol

Headline Title:  Bahrain student alleges torture in detention 06 January 2012 Fresh reports of the torture of an 18-year old student in detention are yet another blow to Bahrain’s promises of reform, Amnesty International said today. Police allegedly subjected Hassan ‘Oun to t...

CORRIE bosses have kept viewers guessing over whether Frank is cleared at his rape trial

SADOKE KIKUNDA Mayele repeatedly cracks his knuckles as he sits restlessly in a small room up a dank stairway in Goma’s central prison, the largest in eastern Congo. He cuts a distinctly underwhelming figure.

A 21-year-old man appears in court accused of raping one woman and attempting to rape another in a Glasgow street last week.

The act of hijacking a Facebook friend’s account when they forget to log out of a public computer and posting embarrassing status up…

A man has won his Supreme Court challenge to the constitutionality of a 1935 law under which he was facing trial for unlawful carnal knowledge of a 16-year-old girl. The alleged offence occurred when the man was aged 20.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to public life today as guest speaker at a Beijing conference, seven months after his arrest on now-dropped attempted rape charges ended his hopes of becoming France's next president.

The chairman of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health decries a military policy denying coverage for abortions after rape.

A panel of seven supreme court justices will hear Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault accusations.

LONDON (AFP) - England's highest court granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission Friday to appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations, setting the hearing for February 1. If the Supreme Court rejects his case next year, the 40-year-old Australian will have exhausted all his options in Britain… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

KABUL (AFP) - A NATO military report acknowledged Friday that members of a US-funded Afghan police force have committed human rights abuses, but insisted the units are making a "tremendous difference" overall.The report followed a highly critical Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released in September that claimed members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) are getting away with serious abuse...

War crimes judges in The Hague dismiss charges against Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana accused of murder and rape in the DR Congo in 2009.

Rape victim Natalie Karneef said that edgy street clothes in the new collection put a 'chic, consumerist finish' on sexual violence.

The University of Vermont chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon has been suspended after the fraternity concluded a survey by asking members, "Who would ...

The self-confessed 'Sunday Rapist' is to appear in the court today on 13 charges of rape -- and the murder of Roodepoort schoolgirl Louise de Waal.

BEIJING (AP) -- Christian Bale was in Beijing on Monday to promote a movie about 13 young prostitutes set during Japanese army's brutal rampaging of China's wartime capital, known in the West as the "Rape of Nanking."...

Juan Rivera, who has spent 19 years in prison for the 1992 rape and murder of Holly Staker, 11, in Waukegan, was ordered freed in an opinion critical of the police and prosecutors.

TWO GOVERNMENT Ministers have expressed their “shock and abhorrence” at the circumstances surrounding the physical and sexual abuse of a group of children by their 50-year-old father who received a life sentence yesterday.

A 50-year old man has been jailed for life for the rape of four of his daughters and has received a sentence of up to seven years on charges of cruelty.

Moshe Katsav spent his last day as a free man in his own home. On Wednesday, he entered a prison to begin serving a seven-year term for rape.

Disgraced former Israeli President Moshe Katsav begins a seven-year sentence for rape, following a case which led him to resign from the post.

Boy awaits sentencing after admitting to snapping photos and posting them on Facebook

Laurent Gbagbo has appeared at the ICC in the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity -- which include murder and rape.

This is what happens when you venture away from reality TV, Vin! Guido extraordinaire Vinny Guadagnino seemed to catch some heat from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)...

PUSAN, South Korea — When Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives in Burma on Wednesday — the first U.S. secretary of state to do so in half a century — she will enter a country vacillating between pessimism and hope. Its authoritarian government is talking loudly of reform. Its opposition leaders are desperate for change but deeply suspicious of the government’s overtures. Meanwhile, its ethnic minori...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council committee has imposed sanctions on a Congolese militia leader allegedly implicated in a highly publicized mass rape case last year, the committee said in a statement on Tuesday.

Former AS Roma winger Mancini has been jailed for two years and eight months after being found guilty of rape by a Milan judge.

Human Rights Council says Assad responsible for his forces' crimes including murder, torture, rape.

Questions remain about the Obama administration’s proposed reforms.

A man in east China's Zhejiang province was executed Tuesday afternoon for raping teenage girls.

CHICAGO -- For 17 years, Terrill Swift and three other men convicted in the 1994 rape and strangulation of a prostitute here have insisted on their innocence. And last May, a powerful new piece of evidence emerged that appeared to back their claim: a DNA profile, constructed from semen found in the victim's body, matched a man who was convicted of raping and strangling another prostitute a few ...

Mike McQueary says he filed a police report about an alleged 2002 rape in a shower, but Penn State police have no record of it.Penn State says it has found no record of Mike McQueary's filing a police report with campus police after he said he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy in a shower in the football building.

The Times Editorial: When celebrities speak, the universe apparently listens. So when sports commentator and radio presenter Darren Scott was recently "outed" for having called a colleague a k****r, the world noticed.

Regarding child rape at Penn State, says John Scalzi, These things should be simple.

The social network confirms it has removed several rape joke pages, but controversial groups can remain if they are tagged.

Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke Lacross players of rape in 2006, was arrested by police in Durham, N.C. and accused ...