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Darren Sharper, ex-NFL star, turns himself in to Calif. police on new rape charges in La.
The former NFL star surrendered to police in L.A. Thursday night on a warrant for rape charges issued out of La. and was ordered held without bail
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Hoax ads called for rape in revenge
Consumed with bitterness over losing her Carmel Valley dream home to a couple with a higher bid, Kathy Rowe found an outlet for her anger: revenge. But what she is calling a childish prank, prosecutors say was a perverse scheme to have a woman raped.
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Nonconsensual sex: How colleges rebranded rape
Why are hundreds of campuses now using the term ‘nonconsensual sex’ instead of ‘rape’ or ‘assault’?
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Men Are Raped Almost as Often as Women in America.
Last year the National Crime Victimization Survey turned up a remarkable statistic. In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38 percent of incidents were against men. The number seemed so high that it prompted researcher Lara Stemple to call the Bureau of Justice Statistics to see if it maybe it had made a mistake, or changed its terminology.
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Teenage Sisters Allegedly Gang-Raped, Murdered In India
NPR's Julie McCarthy reports today on another alleged gang rape and murder in India — this one involving two teenage sisters from the lowest Hindu caste whose bodies were found hanging from a mango tree. Julie says the two girls, ages 14 and 15, were killed in a village about 140 miles east of the capital New Delhi. "They reportedly had gone to a field to relieve themselves but never returned," Julie says. "Like hundreds of millions of Indians, they lacked a bathroom at home."
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India arrests police officers over gang rape
Police say they have arrested four men charged over the rapes and murders of two girls found hanged in northern India. Neighbors of the victims accuse police of ignoring a complaint that the girls had gone missing.
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When You're Accused of Rape
Scott Bear Don't Walk - When I was 22, I was accused of rape. More correctly, an ex-girlfriend told people that I was a rapist. No formal complaint was made. This happened right around the time I was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. What she said started to circulate and people who heard this as rumor tried to reconcile two competing visions of me: the local Native American who makes good, and the rapist.
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How One College Handled a Sexual Assault Complaint
She was 18 years old, a freshman, and had been on campus for just two weeks when one Saturday night last September her friends grew worried because she had been drinking and suddenly disappeared...
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Conor Oberst Rape Accuser Issues Public Apology
Late last year, Conor Oberst was accused of raping a woman after a Bright Eyes show in 2003. In February, he sued his accuser, Joanie Faircloth, for libel, claiming his reputation had been damaged by her accusations. Now, Faircloth, whose real name is Joan Elizabeth Harris, has recanted her statements in a public apology.
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Dallas man exonerated for rape after being cleared by DNA tests
A 57-year-old Texas man who spent 12 years in prison for rape was exonerated on Friday, with legal experts saying his case marked the first time someone has been cleared of a crime by DNA testing that was not requested by the convicted person.
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Statutory rape victim forced to pay child support
Nick Olivas became a father at 14, a fact he wouldn't learn for eight years. While in high school, Olivas had sex with a 20-year-old woman. As he sees it now, she took advantage of a lonely kid going through a rough patch at home. State law says a child younger than 15 cannot consent with an adult under any circumstance, making Olivas a rape victim. But Olivas didn't press charges and says he didn't realize at the time that it was even something to consider.
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What Happens When You Accuse a Major Hollywood Director of Rape?
Michael Egan says he was sexually abused as a teen. They say he’s lying and looking for a payout. Now, years later, he's feeling very vulnerable again.
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“Son, Men Don’t Get Raped”
Sexual assault is alarmingly common in the U.S. military, and more than half of the victims are men. According to the Pentagon, thirty-eight military men are sexually assaulted every single day. These are the stories you never hear—because the culprits almost always go free, the survivors rarely speak, and no one in the military or Congress has done enough to stop it
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Rape Culture in the Alaskan Wilderness
In the tight-knit communities of the far north, there are no roads, no police officers—and higher rates of sexual assault than anywhere else in the United States.
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Woman Charged With Sex Attack On Sleeping Man
A Seattle woman has been charged with raping a man who told cops he awoke in his bed to find his attacker sexually assaulting him while she had his hands pinned down, according to a police report. Chantae Gilman, 26, was charged this week in connection with the alleged June 2013 attack inside the 31-year-old victim’s Seattle apartment.
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The Night Facebook Suggested I 'Might Know' My Rapist
I clicked on his picture, and of course it was him. The same eyes. Same goatee. He is in a relationship. He has two children. At first, I got sick and then the tears came. I wasn't panicked or scared like I used to be. This time every crevice of my body filled with pain...
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Prison for Afghan mullah who raped a 10-year-old girl inside his mosque
Extraordinary events have taken place inside a Kabul courtroom this week. Back in May, a 10-year-old girl was raped inside a mosque in a remote Afghan village. The mullah responsible – Mohammad Amin – had asked three young girls to clean for him when he started behaving inappropriately. The girls made a run for it, only one of them tripped and fell in a stream. Amin dragged her back inside the mosque, where she was raped and left with serious injuries.
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Actress Details Years of Alleged Rape and Manipulation by Bill Cosby
After comedian Hannibal Buress brought up at his standup show in Philly last week that 13 women have accused Bill Cosby of rape from the 1970s into the 2000s (accusations that Cosby's PR machine has continually buried), one woman who came forward in 2006 revealed further details of the several times she says Cosby drugged and raped her.
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Sudan: Mass Rape of 200 in North Darfur
More than 200 women and girls were collectively raped in their village on Friday evening, reportedly by Sudanese soldiers belonging to a military garrison south of El Fasher in North Darfur. 80 of the victims were schoolgirls, 105 were unmarried girls. The other victims were married women.
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Cosby’s massive social media fail
Just as with #Imametsfanbecause back in September, yet another social media campaign backfired spectacularly today. Bill Cosby posted a photo of himself on Twitter Monday afternoon inviting the Internet to meme him. The entire thing was eventually deleted when fans used the web tool to highlight past accusations against Cosby.
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