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A New York City police officer has been charged with raping a teen student at his martial arts school and led her to believe it was part of the program, police said Friday.
They were convicted one after another — four U.S. soldiers who helped gang rape and kill a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in one of the war's worst atrocities.
After a protracted delay, tough new laws against sexual abuse will finally go into effect Sunday in South Africa, which is often called the "rape capital" of the world.
In a Dec. 10 story about the failure of the welfare system in the sexual assault of a young girl in an Aboriginal community, The Associated Press misstated the year of the girl's rape. It was 2006, not 2005.
Officials conceded Tuesday that Australia's welfare system failed a girl who was removed from a remote Aboriginal community after being sexually abused at age 7, then gang raped at age 10 when she was returned to live in the town.
Angolan soldiers routinely and repeatedly rape Congolese women who have crossed the border illegally in search of work in the diamond fields, an international aid organization said Wednesday.
The Chinese manufacturer of a toy coated with a chemical that can turn into a "date-rape" drug if ingested apologized Wednesday for damaging the "Made in China" label, a quality-control agency said.
A homeless man was indicted Tuesday on charges that he raped a college student while she was sleepwalking along a highway near her home.
The Saudi judiciary on Tuesday defended a court verdict that sentenced a 19-year-old victim of a gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes because she was with an unrelated male when they were attacked.
Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were being held in a detention center on charges of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl near a suburban apartment complex, officials said.
China's safety watchdog confirmed Saturday that toy beads recalled in the United States and Australia after sickening children contain a substance that can turn into the "date-rape" drug after ingested.
China's safety watchdog confirmed Saturday that toy beads recalled in the United States and Australia after sickening children contain a toxic substance, state media said.
A former state lawmaker who was convicted this week of raping two of his former foster daughters pleaded guilty Friday to witness tampering in a deal to avoid a second rape trial.
Seven more U.S. children were sickened after ingesting Chinese-made toy beads that were recalled earlier this week because of a toxic chemical coating, the government said Friday.
A former state lawmaker was convicted Tuesday night of raping two former foster daughters during physical examinations that he claimed would help them sell their reproductive eggs.
PHILADELPHIA — In a rare rebuke, a bar association has criticized a judge for refusing to uphold sexual assault charges against a man accused of letting friends rape a prostitute he had hired. The judge said she considered the case "theft of services."
Japanese authorities are investigating the alleged rape of a teenager by four U.S. Marines in southwestern Japan last weekend, officials and media said Friday.
A soldier convicted for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager was sentenced to 110 years in prison, the longest of four soldiers found guilty in the case.
Alexis Giraldo was born as a man but lives life as a woman. She takes hormones to feminize her appearance, a fact she says prison officials didn't care about even as her male cellmate repeatedly raped and beat her.
Two teenagers were accused of gang raping a woman and forcing her 12-year-old son to join in the attack, then beating him and pouring cleaning solution into his eyes.
Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl.
Two men were sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for raping a 14-year-old girl while filming parts of the nearly seven-hour attack.
A military jury ignored an Air Force captain's plea for leniency Wednesday, sentencing him to 50 years in prison for raping four men and attempting to rape two others.
A U.S. soldier sentenced to 100 years in prison for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and killing of her family said he was sorry but that he couldn't explain why he did it.
Sunni Arab clerics on Friday demanded justice for two women who claim they were sexually assaulted by the Shiite-dominated security forces, and several insurgent groups called for revenge attacks. In the capital's Abu Hanifa mosque, Sunni Islam's holiest shrine in Iraq, Sheik Sameer al-Obeidi charged that the allegations showed that "gross human rights violations" were marring a major security sweep in Baghdad and demanded that women be treated with respect during the operations.
Re-posted reflections as we move forward toward New Year resolutions I've recently learned that FEMA plans to evict all residents from the FEMA parks by March... I can't seem to get FEMA parks off my mind lately...
For journalists and academics everywhere, the Duke lacrosse case seemed to validate deeply-held beliefs on race, class, and sex in America. But Dave Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty were less interested in academic theories than the actual truth.
MBARARA, Uganda — At the AIDS clinic here, the stories are brutal. A young cattle herder, infected with H.I.V. along with his wife, tells me that all four of their children died before turning 3.
It might be partly that they enjoy team activities and it's a kind of extended goal celebration, but it is primarily because that is what they see in porn. And porn is screwing up sex.
A 14-year-old Albuquerque girl was jailed for five days this week because she refused to testify against the stepfather prosecutors say raped her.
Court ruled this afternoon to indemn Kevin Fox with $15.5 million for fabricated evidence and forced confession from him for his 3-year-old daughter's murder.
The Department of Justice refused to send a representative to answer questions from Congress today on the investigations into allegations of rape and sexual assault on female American contractors.
Jamie Lynn's Pregnancy: Was It The Result Of A Crime?.......And would it be a crime if it were not someone "famous"?
ust listen to what Jamie Leigh Jones has to say about what happened to her in The Green Zone. Perhaps she would have been safer unarmed on a street in Baghdad than she was around her "co-workers." This is so disgusting, so vile....Not just the incident, but response to it.
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) commends House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., (D-Mich.) and Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) for their leadership in calling an investigative hearing into the mishandlin …
What started out as one of the most horrendous racial rape/torture cases in recent memory, has now devolved into a legal circus, as the prosecutor in charge of the Megan Williams case, and the West Virginia State Attorney General, are engaged in a very public power struggle not o …
Her boy friend is 18, she is 16. She cannot legally consent to sex with someone over 18. Will he get a pass because he is white and she is a child star?
A US woman who said she was raped by US contractors in Iraq testified in Congress today, telling legislators that she was kept under armed guard in her trailer after reporting the incident.
An 11-year-old child bride sits next to her 40-year-old fiance. For UNICEF, this was the Photo of the Year.
A rapist who avoided a jail term after raping a deaf mother-of-three in her bed while she slept has been jailed for seven years following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
By most accounts, Scottish rape law has not evolved much since the age of the Picts. There is no such thing -- legally speaking -- as the rape of a man. Until 2002, defendants were permitted to question their accusers directly in court; there was no rape shield law.
POLOKWANE, South Africa — The African National Congress chose the Zulu politician Jacob G. Zuma as its new leader on Tuesday, handing South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, a resounding defeat.
The image is startling -- a 40-year-old groom sitting beside his 11-year-old future bride. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair, who took the photo last year in Afghanistan, asked the pre-teenage bride what she felt on the day of her engagement.
SARAH BRADLEY, the district judge who failed to jail nine males found guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl, had been fully briefed by prominent community members on the culture of violence that had taken hold of the tiny Aurukun township on Cape York.
ABC's Brian Ross talks with Jamie Leigh Jones, who accepted an offer to work in Iraq for Halliburton subsidiary KBR in 2005.
This article is easily portraying the most disturbing series of events I have seen happen to any one person. How injustice can occur at so many corners and in so many flavors to this woman is, quite frankly, unbelievable in 2007.
SYDNEY, Australia — Mounting anger over the handling of the gang rape of a 10-year-old indigenous girl has pushed the plight of Australia's Aboriginal minority to the top of the country's political agenda, leaving the new government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd scrambling f …
Ensign P. recalls struggling during his third year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. His mother was dying of an illness back home, and his grades dropped so low in 2004 he was put on academic probation.
Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned a rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison in a case that sparked international attention, a Saudi newspaper reported.
The Saudi king has pardoned a female rape victim sentenced to jail and 200 lashes for being alone with a man raped in the same attack, reports say. The "Qatif girl" case caused an international outcry with widespread criticism of the Saudi justice system.
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