RAPE popularity and RAPE trends

A day after a former high school football star had his rape conviction dismissed, attention has focused on the woman who recanted the sexual assault claim she made 10 years ago. Wanetta Gibson was a high school sophomore when she accused Brian Banks of raping her at Long Beach Poly High School. She and her family sued the school, receiving a $750,000 settlement, and Banks spent five years in p...

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A former Army captain felt he was "untouchable" after police failed to prosecute him for two rapes and one sexual assault, leaving him free to go on and rape his fourth victim, a court heard yesterday.

The US government should allow US servicewomen who are rape survivors to make their own decisions about their pregnancies, Human Rights Watch said today. On...

Even if a woman is of easy virtues, she cannot be subjected to rape, the Supreme Court has held, saying courts have a duty to determine whether the offence has been committed or not.

New Jersey murder suspect to appear in court on 33rd anniversary of 6-year-old boy's disappearanceVIDEO: Suspect Confesses to Killing Etan Patz Ohio Teen to be Charged as Adult in School ShootingEx-Football Prospect Exonerated After Rape Accuser Recants

A Sunderland man is jailed for the repeated rape of his daughter, who later killed herself.

After maintaining a live-in relationship for 8 years with a girl, the man fell into the customary caste-based obligation to marry another girl chosen by his parents.

After maintaining a live-in relationship for 8 years with a girl, the man fell into the customary caste based obligation to tie the knot with another girl chosen by his parents.

A man who admitted during counselling sessions that he had abused other children has been sentenced to eight years for the rape and sexual assault of his wife’s 13-year-old niece.

Brian Banks, who was 16 and had been offered football scholarships when he was accused of rape, collapsed in sobs during a Long Beach, California court hearing as a prosecutor dismissed the charges against him.

37-year-old man allegedly followed woman from pub,charged with rape, second man charged with attempting to sodomize her.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The US government should allow US servicewomen who are rape survivors to make their own decisions about their pregnancies. On May 24, 2012, the US Senate Armed Services Committee will consider a proposal under a military funding bill that would end the ban on military insurance coverage for abortion in cases of rape and incest. ...

STAR casino takes ABC to court over a report claiming a high roller discussed plans to rape a female dealer and threatened to murder.

Seven-strong panel of justices will rule on whether European arrest warrant issued for WikiLeaks founder is validThe supreme court will deliver its verdict next Wednesday on whether or not the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, should be deported to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.The short judgment on 30 May will include an explanation of the decision the seven-strong pan...

When we learn about yet another murder or rape, do we push it out of our minds, or ponder what we humans are capable of?

"Fifteen people were killed or injured in tribal fighting in Yemen after a male donkey chased an ass and raped it just near the house of its owner." -- Emirates 24/7

Former IMF chief being investigated for alleged assault during a Washington sex party.

OKARA - By raising alarms and hue and cry, two girls thwarted rape attempts in separate incidents at two different places here the other day. As per detail, Sharifan Bibi, daughter of Noor Mohammad, a resident of Lugr Malkana, was in her cattle-pen when an armed accused identified as Ijaz Ahmad entered there. Having torn her clothes, Ijaz tried to ravish her. The girl bit him with her teeth and...

PARIS — A French prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation into whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and once a leading candidate to become president of France, participated in gang rape at a sex party he is accused of helping to organize in a Washington hotel. Read full article >>

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s legal woes deepened Monday as French prosecutors opened a preliminary probe into accusations he took part in a gang rape in the U.S.

French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of group rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.

A Belgian prostitute has complained that she was attacked by the former International Monetary Fund chief in a hotel room in the United States.

The justice minister wants to be able to keep dangerous offenders in jail for 10 years after their sentence ends. Opponents say the idea proves that prisons don't work

LILLE, France (Reuters) - French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of group rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.

A French prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

A French prosecutor orders an initial inquiry into claims that ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was involved in a "gang rape" in Washington.

A French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

FRENCH prosecutors open a preliminary investigation into accusations that disgraced the ex-IMF chief took part in a gang rape.

FRENCH prosecutors have opened investigation into accusations that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a gang rape.

On a recent Sunday morning in the black township of Kwa Thema, near Johannesburg, a young lesbian couple went to church. Kwa Thema is one of many settlements that were created by the apartheid regime to contain and control the black majority population, and it remains isolated today. The two . . . (Subscription required.)

ON THURSDAY, the Justice Department released the results of a 2008 survey of former state inmates. One in 10 reported being sexually abused while incarcerated. Prison rape at any frequency is a national disgrace; at that rate, it’s also an epidemic. Read full article >>

Jia Xiaoming, a fugitive who was involved in several cases of robbery and rape in the early 1990s, was sentenced to spend the rest of life in prison.

May 17, 2012 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT:  Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act Sexual violence, against any victim, is an assault on human dignity and an affront to American values.  The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) was enacted with bipartisan support and established a "zero tolerance standard" for rape in prisons in the ...

Karuna Devi is shocked and inconsolable. It has been four days since her 17-year-old son, who was the main witness in her gang rape case, was burnt alive in their village in Bihar's Nawada district, yet no arrest has been made so far. "Police officials are behaving as if my son was not burnt alive.

Under the Iranian legal system, 8 crimes including murder, rape, drug trafficking and sodomy can be capital offenses.

Rep. Gwen Moore spoke forcefully against the House version of the Violence Against Woman Act and openly talked about her own experience as a victim of violence and sexual assault. Moore sponsored the Democratic version of the bill, the twin to the Senate’s re-authorization.  “As a member of this body and a survivor of sexual assault…I can tell you it’s traumatic to be here today and to find my ...

Headline Title:  Mali’s worst human rights situation in 50 years 16 May 2012 Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amn...

The family of Victoria Stafford, a slain eight-year-old from Ontario, will speak as Michael Rafferty is sentenced for her rape and murder.

Political differences aside, whether in Russia or elsewhere, the issue of sexual abuse warrants substantive attention. According to international criminal statistics, Russia does not stand out as a country excessively afflicted with such behavior. However, these figures appear like they could be misleading on the premise of inconsistent reporting

NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge delayed the sentencing of an eyewear website operator who intimidated customers, saying he first wants to hear testimony from dozens of victims who reported they were threatened with violence, including murder and rape....

If you want to see what the evolution of web culture looks like, here’s a pretty good example. This is what was up-voted to the front page of Re…

Isn't it obvious? We gave women the right to vote. As Raw Story reports: Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist that's appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America's greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in "the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains...from the Baltimore Sun

Despite more than a year spent there in brutal captivity, it didn’t take long for the former journalist to return to the country, this time to create a charity helping rape victims

The accusations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn become more alarming with each fresh episode. On Friday, news emerged that French investigators are looking into allegations that Strauss-Kahn, 63, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, might have been involved in a rape at a sex party in the W Hotel in Washington. In the New York Times, Maia de la Baume reports from Paris that the p...

PARIS (AP) -- French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010, while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday....

Investigators are examining allegations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape at a Washington hotel in 2010, a spokesperson at the prosecutor’s office in Lille said on Friday.

FORMER Liberian president Charles Taylor deserves an 80-year sentence for the war crimes he was convicted of last week, including aiding and abetting murder and rape, prosecutors said in a written filing.

Scotland's Justice Minister is examining satellite tracking for sex offenders after a report found the technology could have prevented a dangerous paedophile's attempt to murder a pensioner and rape her granddaughters.

Four minors accused in a brutal videotaped gang rape of a mentally disabled teenager were released on $67 bail Thursday, their lawyer said.

MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unveiled a broad probe on Tuesday into complaints that authorities were failing to aggressively investigate sexual assault reports in Missoula, Montana, citing more than 80 reported rapes there during the past three years.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether sexual-assault allegations against students at the University of Montana, including at least six football players, were properly handled.

Nine more people were arrested on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the naming on Twitter of the victim in footballer Ched Evans' rape case.

A woman was held captive and raped by a man for three days before escaping, according to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department. Tyrone Laurence Dyson, 31, was arrested in connection with the crime on charges of rape, assault with a...

Is statutory rape an acceptable comic premise?

The Union Cabinet this week gave its assent to a bill that raised the age of legal sex in India from 16 to 18. It gave the go ahead to the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Bill 2011 which deems that sex under the age of 18 would be considered rape, even if it was between two consenting adults.  While there is no denying the need for stringent mechanisms to tackle sexual abuse of...

Ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of terrorism, murder and rape committed by rebels during Liberia's 11-year civil war.

The suicide of Fakhra Younis, whose face had been disfigured by an acid attack, on March 17, 2012; the rape of a first-year girl student in Rawalpindi by five policemen on March 25, 2012 and her attempt to commit suicide the very next day; acid attack on a girl in Sheikhupura on March 25, 2012 and a woman by her husband on a minor domestic issue in Multan on March 26, 2012. These are some ...

The suicide of Fakhra Younis, whose face had been disfigured by an acid attack, on March 17, 2012; the rape of a first-year girl student in Rawalpindi by five policemen on March 25, 2012 and her attempt to commit suicide the very next day; acid attack on a girl in Sheikhupura on March 25, 2012 and a woman by her husband on a minor domestic issue in Multan on March 26, 2012. These are some ...

The Welsh international is set to fight against the court's decision to hand down a five-year jail sentence for his assault on a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room last May

Police are planning to arrest a number of Twitter users who are alleged to have named the 19-year-old rape victim of Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans.

Sheffield United have suspended reserve-team player Connor Brown for posts he made on Twitter following team-mate Ched Evans' jail sentence for rape.

PFA chairman says they "must address" the fact Ched Evans, jailed last week for rape, was named in League One Team of the Year.

Sheffield UnitedSheffield United and Wales striker Ched Evans was jailed for five years today after being convicted of raping a woman who was “too drunk to consent” to sex.

Another girlfriend testified she had sex with accused one day after alleged rape and murder of Woodstock eight-year-old

Rebecca Kieslling was told at a young age that she was adopted. But when she tried to track down her biological parents, she discovered a shocking secret.

The creator of HBO\'s new show explains why its approach to romance is making guys freak out about rape

Torture! Murder! Rape! Those nasty Borgias are back and up to no good at the Vatican in the days when popes ruled, and misruled, Europe.

The former Another Level hitmaker, who dated glamour model Katie Price at the height of his fame in the late 1990s, says he will defend the accusation and it had cause 'considerable upset' to him and his family.

A SINGER and DJ has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rape after a complaint to police.

ANOTHER Level singer held with pal after ‘hotel attack’

An eighteen-year-old Ukrainian woman dies, weeks after a brutal sexual assault that prompted a campaign against political corruption.

An 18-year-old Ukranian died today, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism.

West Indies cricketer Ryan Hinds has been charged with rape but was released on bail after appearing before a magistrate court in Bridgetown. Hinds will reappear in court on July 5.

Courtney Love accusing The Muppets of rape -- because of their cover of a Nirvana song -- is one thing. But naming Kermit the prime suspect?! Typical ... always blame the green guy.Check out TMZ on TV -- click here to see your local listings!

This just in... As we reported it would do yesterday, PayPal has today issued a significant update to its acceptable use policy regarding payments for certain erotica-themed e-books. Now the eBay-owned payments company says that it will only prohibit using its payment system for specific books -- not entire classes of books -- and that it will only apply to those publications that contain pict...

Stop me if you've heard this before, crazy bitch of all crazy bitches Courtney Love is freaking out over absolutely nothing again. The Muppets do a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in their newest movie and they paid for that shit as well as getting permission from Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. But the flaming hobo trash can in Courtney's head has sparked...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payments arm of eBay Inc, has sparked a furor in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain "obscene" themes including rape, bestiality or incest.

80% of women who go into prostitution were victims of sexual violence, rape and/or incest in their youth. These are damaged women and prostitution damages them further.

Eight current and former members of the military allege in a new lawsuit that they were raped, assaulted or harassed during their service.

A new law in Texas requiring ultrasounds before an abortion comes close to state-sanctioned rape, and it’s emblematic of a broad assault on women’s reproductive rights at the state level.

Thomas says Cox carried a sleeping woman into a bedroom and said: "I think she's ready."

Democracy cannot function if people don’t stand up for the law

Vous avez jusqu'à demain soir pour changer contre des euros sonnants et parfois trébuchants les derniers billets en francs que vous possédez. Attention, cela ne concerne que la dernière gamme de francs. Les autres, c'est râpé depuis longtemps. Faites-le car il y a peu de chance qu'ils aient de la valeur aux yeux des collectionneurs. Cette fois, le franc est enterré. Tout au moins celui que nous...

In a rape culture, no matter what women are wearing, we are all sluts

Temporarily-accused sex criminal and Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be safely back in the motherland, but the spectre of hotel rape remains. The threat is apparently disquieting enough to justify mandatory rape alert buttons for New York's hotel employees. More »

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Mary J. Blige will write a song for The Invisible War, a Sundance entry focusing on rape in the military.

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.

Falls noch jemand einen kleinen Einstieg braucht, was "rape culture" (Vergewaltigungskultur) bedeutet und ausmacht: "Shit Everybody says to Rape Victims".Zum Beitrag im Blog »

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

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.

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

OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) -- Republican Rick Perry is shifting his opposition to abortion, saying he opposes it even after rape or incest....

OUR STAFF REPORTERARIFWALA - District Additional & Sessions Judge Aqib Nazeer awarded an accused ten-year imprisonment in a rape case here on Tuesday.As per details, Rung Shah Police Station registered a case against accused Ejaz and Mohammad Hussain for raping Saman Shehzadi, resident of Village 11/Eb and another complaint was also filed by Mohammad Akram against the accused in the court o...

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.

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...

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."...

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Transportation Security Administration is getting a lot of negative attention, much of it from the U.S. government itself. A recent congressional report blasted the TSA for being incompetent and ineffective (PDF). A bill to force the TSA to reduce its screening of active duty U.S. military members and their families was approved unanimously by the House of Representati...

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.

Western legal tradition regarding rape has roots that are not all that different from those we condemn in places such as Afghanistan.The story of Gulnaz, a young Afghan woman who was raped and then jailed for having sex out of wedlock, has once again drawn international attention to Afghanistan's legal system and its institutionalized discrimination against women.

The United Nations official leading efforts to combat sexual violence in conflict today welcomed the decision by a Security Council committee to place a militia leader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under sanctions for instigating acts of sexual assault, including mass rape, in the east of the country.

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)...

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.

Lawyers for two officials charged with perjury appeared eager to question the credibility of one witness, the assistant coach Mike McQueary, who said he saw Joe Sandusky rape a young boy on Penn State property.

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.

STATE COLLEGE (Reuters) - The lawyer for former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said on Tuesday one of his alleged child rape victims will tell "a very different story" from grand jury testimony.

Audiences for this incendiary button-pusher will mostly divide along two lines those who think writer-director Rod Lurie (The Contender Nothing but the Truth) has a hubris overload remaking Sam Peckinpah's 1971 landmark and those who never heard of Bloody Sam's controversial take on macho violence and what defines rape Let...

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 ...