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Outrage after judge tells rape victim 'pain and sex go together'
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.
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The judge who asked an alleged rape victim why she 'couldn't keep her knees together' might lose his job
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?"
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Woman ‘found tied up and gagged after being raped and beaten by Algerian migrants under Paris landmark’
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.
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Tory councillor says rape 'easy to report', should not be recorded as an offence
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.
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Police say two women pinned down 18-year-old before she was raped
A teenager was raped after being pinned to the ground and robbed by two women and a man in Manchester city centre. Detectives investigating the horrific early morning attack say the 18-year-old victim was grabbed, hurled to the floor and held down as her handbag was ransacked. She was then raped.
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Yazidi girl, 16, set herself on fire to avoid further rape at hands of ISIS
A 16-year-old Yazidi girl named Yasmin was sick of being raped by ISIS fighters. So she doused herself in gasoline and lit a match, knowing that if she survived that the militants would no longer find her desirable. “Now she looks like a zombie, and children cry when they see her,” said Dr. Jan Kizilhan, a psychology professor and trauma expert who has been working to bring women and children traumatized by ISIS to Germany for treatment. “It is so difficult to see what the fire did to her.”
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Verdict on swimming pool rape case overturned
An Iraqi refugee who was jailed after claiming it was a sexual emergency when he raped a boy in a swimming pool has had the sentence overturned. An appeal court accepted the defence lawyer’s claim that the lower court had not done enough to ascertain whether or not the rapist had realized the schoolboy was saying no. The attacker, identified as 20-year-old Iraqi migrant Amir A., had been treated to a trip to the Theresienbad pool in December 2015 as part of the integration process.
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Women Do What They Need To Do To Survive
Our preconceived notions about sexual assault have far-reaching, dangerous consequences. By Jade Blair. (Mar. 24, 2016)
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Canadian Mining’s Dark Heart
Tallying the human cost of gold in one of the most remote places on Earth. By Richard Poplak.
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Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, and the Sex Assault Scandals of 2016
From Trump’s ‘locker-room’ talk to the testimonies of survivors, 2016 has been a charged and conflicted year for how society perceives and punishes assault. By Lizzie Crocker.
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Mexican man charged with rape had 19 deportations, removals
A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.
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Sweden: Woman Raped by 3 Men of “Middle Eastern Appearance” Broadcast Live on Facebook
Three young men were arrested for alleged ‘aggravated rape’ after they broadcasted a live video on Facebook, showing how they sexually assaulted a woman from Uppsala. Hundreds of people were able to watch the horrifying scene on Facebook. During the live stream, witnesses said that one of the suspects pulled out a gun and threatened the viewers. Police arrival on the crime scene was also filmed, according to Upsala Nya Tidning, a Swedish newspaper.
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19-Year-Old Illustrates Brutal Traces Of Sexual Assault In A Powerful NSFW Artwork
19-year-old Emma Krenzer has brought awareness to sexual assault via an art project, which she made for the class at Wesleyan University in Nebraska.
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The Heart-Work
Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act. By Melissa Febos.
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Arkansas just passed a law that will let rapists sue victims who want an abortion
A pregnant woman's husband will have the power to stop her from having an abortion, even in cases of spousal rape, under a new law introduced in the US state of Arkansas. Most second trimester abortions will also be banned by Act 45 - the Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act - which will make it possible for husbands to sue doctors who carry out abortions for civil damages, or get an injunction to block the termination. The pro-life law, which was pushed through in just two months by the state's Republican government, prohibits all dilation and evacuation...
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Man who raped 10-year-old boy because of 'sexual emergency' has conviction overturned
A man who raped a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Austria has had his conviction overturned after judges found he may have believed the child consented. Police said the 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, who has not been named, assaulted his victim in a toilet cubicle at the Theresienbad swimming pool in Vienna on 2 December last year.
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ICE: Rape suspect, alleged gang member is immigration fugitive
ABC7 News has learned that a man accused of raping a Falls Church teen allegedly entered the country illegally last year and was ordered to leave -- but never did. Ronald Fabricio Herrera Contreras, 18, is wanted by Fairfax County Police on charges of rape, abduction, assault and battery, and gang participation. Herrera Contreras allegedly dragged a 15-year-old girl into the woods off Lee Highway in Falls Church and raped her on July 13 of this year.
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Sick, dying and raped in America's nursing homes
Some of the victims can't speak. They rely on walkers and wheelchairs to leave their beds. They have been robbed of their memories. They come to nursing homes to be cared for.
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India's rape crisis is worsening, and there still isn't a national registry for sex offenders
In mid-January, when New Delhi police arrested Sunil Rastogi for sex crimes against underage girls, the 38-year-old father of five made a horrifying confession: He claimed to have assaulted, or tried to assault, as many as 500 girls over the course of more than a decade.It’s not clear how reliable that number is, but since 2004, authorities have arrested Rastogi at least 15 times on similar charges, and he hasn’t been convicted.
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Rape victims will no longer face cross-examination in court
Rape victims will be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court under reforms being brought forward by the Government. Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss said that, from September, their cross-examination will be pre-recorded and then played to the jury during the trial. The roll-out of the scheme was originally not scheduled to start until the beginning of next year but has been brought forward following an agreement with senior judges.
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