Police have slammed a former mayor who said rape is "easy to report" and suggested police should stop recording reports of rape as an offence. Tory councillor Alan Amos made the shocking comments after official figures revealed a 168% rise in reports of rape nationally since 2011. Over the last five years, just over a thousand rape offences were reported to police, including a record high in 2015 of 324.

Three illegal immigrants were in custody in Paris today after a teenager was found tied up and gagged after allegedly being gang raped underneath the Eiffel Tower. The horrifying attack is said to have taken place after the 19-year-old was lured on a Facebook ‘date’ in the French capital.

A Canadian judge is facing the possibility of removal from the bench after he faulted a 19-year-old woman who said she was raped for not doing enough to defend herself during the alleged attack and suggesting that she wanted to have sex. Among Federal Court Justice Robin Camp's remarks during a 2014 sexual assault trial, according to a notice of allegations posted on the Canadian Judicial Council website: "Why couldn't you just keep your knees together? Why didn't you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn't penetrate you?"

A Canadian judge who sparked outrage with wildly offensive comments to a teen rape victim in his court is facing a disciplinary hearing, but plans to fight to retain his privileged position. Justice Robin Camp reportedly berated the 19-year-old victim for not "closing her knees" or putting her "ass in the sink", told her "pain and sex sometimes go together" and referred to her as "the accused" during the trial. The case has been cited by women's rights campaigners as a prime example of why women fear to report cases of sexual abuse.

A refugee who raped a ten-year-old boy has claimed he did not know sexually assaulting the child was wrong as it was 'culturally acceptable' in his homeland. Mufiz Rahaman told Sydney's Downing Centre Court raping children was not seen as morally wrong in his native Myanmar when he pleaded guilty to the aggravated sexual assault of a 10-year-old refugee on Wednesday, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Rape culture continues to flourish on American college campuses. In the most recent account, four women who reported that they had been raped by the same man were ignored by the Utah State University’s Title IX office, and by the police detectives investigating the complaints in Logan, Utah.

To ensure she’d testify against her attacker, the prosecutor locked up an innocent woman in a notoriously hellish jail. By Leon Neyfakh.

For decades, the people of Hinsdale gave little thought to the mysterious brick building in town. Then came a scandal. By Bryan Smith.

There has been outrage in India after a student was allegedly gang-raped by five men who had also raped her three years ago. Police are yet to make any arrests although the 21-year-old was attacked last week in Rohtak town in the northern state of Haryana. She had been pursuing a case in court against the five men, when she was attacked on Wednesday. The woman said she was forced inside a car and the men tried to strangle her. She was seriously injured and left for dead in the bushes. A passerby saw her and took her to the hospital.

Germany's parliament passes a new law defining rape, clarifying that "No means No", even if a victim did not fight back.

Rolling Stone magazine published a story in November 2014 describing in chilling detail a student's account of being brutally raped by seven men at the University of Virginia. Several days later the magazine's editors received an email from the reporter with the subject line "our worst nightmare." "We're going to have to run a retraction," wrote Sabrina Rubin Erdely about her now-discredited story, "A Rape on Campus." The message is among hundreds of pages of notes...

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her rapist was convicted.​ By Anna Clark.

The judge who sentenced Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexual assault is continuing to face criticism for his decision.

A man who must give police 24 hours' notice before he has sex after he was cleared of rape has said the ruling "puts an end to your life". The man, in his 40s, was acquitted last year at a retrial. He has been charged with breaching the terms of the order by refusing to give police the pin to his phone. He accused North Yorkshire Police, which declined to comment, of "sour grapes" in applying for a sexual risk order after the case.

A court in Delhi convicted five men Monday for the gang rape of a Danish tourist in 2014. The 51-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and robbed at knifepoint on Jan. 14, 2014, after losing the way to her hotel, reports Agence France-Presse. Nine people were accused of the crime, including three minors who are being tried in juvenile court. One of the accused died in February, according to the BBC. “I pronounce all the accused guilty,” additional sessions judge Ramesh Kumar told the court, adding that the five — ages between 22 and 27 — will be sentenced on Thursday.

Most South Africans learn about rape, or the threat of rape, when they are very young – even if they are yet to have the words for it. Sexual abuse has become normalized. Though the country’s annual crime figures, released on Tuesday, saw the number of sexual offences drop by just over 5% to 53 617 between 2014–2015, most researchers believe this figure reflects only a fraction of actual that occur. The chances of rape convictions have proved to be scanter still.

Corey Feldman has shared shocking details about the rampant sexual abuse he and other young actors were forced to endure during their years in Hollywood. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Feldman discusses how he was repeatedly molested by adult males in the industry, saying these men would pass many young stars 'back and forth to each other.'

In an in-depth interview with THR, the 'Goonies' and 'Lost Boys' star opens up about his late best friend Corey Haim's rape by a producer at age 11, the pre-teen parties where predators stalked and groomed their marks and the "dark side" of his close pal Michael Jackson: "The man is gone. Let him rest in peace." A recent interview with Elijah Wood has reignited the conversation on pedophilia in the entertainment business. The Lord of the Rings star later clarified first to The Hollywood Reporter and then on his personal Twitter account that his comments about "something major...

Indonesia has toughened its punishments for child rapists to include the death penalty and chemical castration. It follows outrage over several recent violent crimes, including the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. President Joko Widodo said the regulation was "intended to overcome the crisis caused by sexual violence against children". Previously, the maximum sentence for rape, of either an adult or a child, was 14 years in jail.

An 18-year-old Ohio high school student pleaded not guilty Friday to using a social media app to livestream the rape of her 17-year-old friend. Marina Lonina told police she recorded the assault on Periscope in an effort to build evidence, and her attorney said the teen was trying to get her friend out of the house where the alleged attack occurred. Lonina faces charges including rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexual...