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UN human rights chief says South Sudan militias allow troops to rape women and girls as payment
A U.N. report describing sweeping crimes against children, the disabled being burned alive and fighters being allowed to rape women as payment shows South Sudan is facing "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world," the U.N. human rights chief said Friday. Zeid Raad al-Hussein lamented the crisis in the nearly 5-year-old country has been largely overlooked by the international community, and his...
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St. Paul’s Before and After the Owen Labrie Rape Trial
There are two very different accounts of what happened the evening of May 30, 2014, at the elite prep school between 18-year-old scholar-athlete Owen Labrie and a 15-year-old freshman girl. By Todd S. Purdum.
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'Jackie' must testify in lawsuit over Rolling Stone rape story
A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone's discredited story about an alleged frat house gang rape must testify as part of a lawsuit against the magazine. The woman identified only as "Jackie" will be deposed on Thursday by attorneys representing Rolling Stone and Nicole Eramo, the University of Virginia administrator who is suing the magazine and the author of the now-retracted article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
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Cologne police claim they were ordered to cover-up word ‘rape’ in NYE sex attacks report
Police investigating the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve claim they were ordered to remove the word “rape” from their initial report. Local officers had produced an internal “important event” memo entitled “rape, sexual harassment, thefts, committed by a large group of foreign people” – the first indication of the scale of the incident which would go on to make headlines around the world.
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Teen pleads not guilty to livestreaming friend's rape
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...
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Indonesia approves death penalty for child rapists
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.
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Corey Feldman on Elijah Wood Hollywood Pedophilia Controversy: "I Would Love to Name Names"
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...
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Corey Feldman on Hollywood pedophilia ring, friend Corey Haim's rape
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.'
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How rape became South Africa's enduring nightmare
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.
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India Convicts Five for Gang Rape of Danish Tourist
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.
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Man ordered to tell police of sex plans 'devastated'
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.
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Juror slams judge in Stanford rape case, calls sentence 'a mockery' amid recall push
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.
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11,431 Rape Kits Were Collected and Forgotten in Detroit. This Is the Story of One of Them
Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her rapist was convicted. By Anna Clark.
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How Rolling Stone's rape story became its 'worst nightmare'
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...
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Germany rape law: 'No means No' law passed
Germany's parliament passes a new law defining rape, clarifying that "No means No", even if a victim did not fight back.
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India outrage after gang rape victim assaulted again 'by same men'
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.
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The Cult Next Door
For decades, the people of Hinsdale gave little thought to the mysterious brick building in town. Then came a scandal. By Bryan Smith.
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A Texas Prosecutor Jailed a Rape Victim to Ensure Her Testimony Against Her Attacker
To ensure she’d testify against her attacker, the prosecutor locked up an innocent woman in a notoriously hellish jail. By Leon Neyfakh.
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Shocking new report: Four women accused same student of rape — but cops and Utah State did nothing
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.
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Muslim refugee, 20, says he thought it was OK to rape boy, 10
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.
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