Chinese University Handbook Draws Online Fury Over Rape Comments
A Chinese university has drawn furious criticism on social media after publishing a handbook that said women were raped because they “find it hard to resist temptation.”
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Maddie Suspect Loses Bid for Prison Release
The prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann on Thursday lost his bid to be freed from jail, with the European Court of Justice rejecting his appeal against a separate rape conviction.
Read moreMedical Rape
A San Francisco Bay Area woman has accused a fertility doctor of using his own sperm to impregnate her not once, but twice — rather than the anonymous donor she requested.
Read moreSuspected Date Rape
An anonymous woman claims in court that she fell unconscious in her Lyft home to find one of her companions raping her in a hotel, having solicited the Lyft driver and a luggage cart to move her.
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DOJ Wants Taxpayer-Funded Defense of Trump Rape Accuser’s Suit
In a highly unusual move on Tuesday, the Department of Justice moved to swap the U.S. government for President Donald Trump in a lawsuit filed by his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll.
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‘The Monster Will Die Alone in the Dark’: Golden State Killer Gets 26 Life Terms
Ensnared randomly by a relative’s DNA genetic test submitted decades after a brutal yearslong crime spree, the confessed serial killer dubbed “The Golden State Killer’s”disappearing act is up: He will die in prison.
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Golden State Killer Victims Face Their Tormentor: ‘The Devil Can Keep You Company’
The women terrorized by confessed rapist and Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo could not see the face of the masked monster who attacked them. But on Tuesday, they got to stare him down in court and finally have their say.
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Raped Twice: Woman Wants Damages From Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr., the Academy Award winner indicted on several counts of forcible groping, was hit with a civil complaint Tuesday by a woman who says the actor raped her twice in his hotel room.
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French Prosecutors Open Rape Investigation Against Paris Ex-Deputy Mayor
French prosecutors on Tuesday said they were opening an investigation into alleged rape against a former deputy mayor of Paris after a man accused him in a newspaper article of years of abuse.
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Somalia Executes Soldiers Convicted for Boy’s Fatal Rape
Two Somalia soldiers were executed Tuesday after being convicted of raping a 10-year-old boy who died from the bleeding, officials say.
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Trump Can’t Pause Suit by Rape Accuser E. Jean Carroll
A judge has refused to delay a lawsuit by famed New York columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says President Donald Trump raped her decades ago when he was a private citizen.
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Panel Revives First Amendment Case Over Student-Athlete Rape Claims
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday reinstated a First Amendment retaliation case brought by a former Kent State University softball player who claims her coach and the university tried to cover up her rape accusations against the coach’s son.
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Mali War Crimes Trial Kicks Off in International Criminal Court
An accused Islamic militant refused to enter a plea on the 13 counts of crimes against humanity he faces before the International Criminal Court as his trial officially began Tuesday.
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High Court Backs Tribal Designation for Wide Swath of Oklahoma Land
In a decision that reclassifies a large swath of eastern Oklahoma as land belonging to Native Americans driven from their ancestral home during the Trail of Tears, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that a Seminole man sentenced to 500 years in prison for rape and sodomy should have been tried in federal court.
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Hollywood Exec Charged With Rapes and Kidnaping
A Hollywood producer and talent manager has been charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping four women in California, state prosecutors said Monday.
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‘That 70s Show’ Actor Danny Masterson Charged With 3 Rapes
“That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson was charged with raping three women in the early 2000s, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday, the culmination of a three-year investigation.
Read moreSuspected California Serial Killer to Plead Guilty
A man suspected of committing dozens of rapes and murders in California as the “Golden State Killer” is expected to plead guilty later this month as part of a deal that will save him from the death penalty.
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A Century Later, Minnesota Pardons Black Man in Case Tied to Lynchings
A black man who served as a scapegoat for a lynch mob in 1920 received Minnesota’s first-ever posthumous pardon Friday, 100 years after his conviction was used to justify the murder of three of his co-workers.
Read morePolice Assault
Jane Doe sued San Bernardino County and the probation officer whom she accuses of using “torture, rape, and excessive force” upon her after she reported his improper advances to the county, in federal court.
Read moreTitle IX Practices
A federal court in Texas ordered Baylor University to produce thousands of documents from a law firm’s internal investigation on the university’s policies on student sexual assault cases in a suit in which multiple students accuse the university of mishandling their claims that they were raped.
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