Rape in a sentence

Of these, 32 have made marital rape a specific criminal offence, while the remaining 74 do not exempt marital rape from general rape provisions.

The Rape of Nanking, Penguin Books, 1997, pg. 95. Sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers were forced to rape their daughters.

Dhankhar faced 13 charges of rape, six of administering an intoxicating substance with intent to enable himself to rape, 17 of recording intimate videos without consent, and three of indecent assault.

Duane Owen is set to receive a lethal injection for the March 1984 rape and stabbing death of a teenager, and the rape and attack on a mother of two.

He was charged and remanded into custody, before pleading guilty to rape and attempted rape during an appearance at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

He was finally convicted of the sexual assault, attempted rape and rape of the final child in Douglas, Lanarkshire.

Jurors could not reach verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape and a retrial will take place.

Only about half of rape and attempted rape trials result in a conviction.

Rape and attempted rape trials have also been far more likely to end in a not proven verdict that trials for other offences.

Ravi Canhye, 47, was unanimously found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, three counts of assault by penetration and one sexual assault after a trial that concluded this week.

The Scottish government wants a single judge to decide whether people are guilty of rape and attempted rape in a pilot scheme aimed at increasing conviction rates.

The young rape victim, from Ayrshire, said: “Now with the Crown announcing a review, I hope that prosecutors review my case as the diversion route was never meant for serious sexual crimes like rape.

Women today said they had lost faith in the Met after a blistering report revealed just how badly it is failing rape victims - with one female officer saying she would not report her own rape to the police.

Additionally, social calls for the criminalisation of marital rape have not been addressed, and in some cases, lesser punishment for rape during marital separation was flagged.

Among the recorded types of violence that occurred in private spaces are attempted rape, marital rape, forced abortion and incest.

But the politics of “my rape vs your rape” helps nobody, except political parties.

Daniels was arraigned by the Lagos state government over rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault of his church members.

Halim was found guilty by a jury of sexual assault on a female, two counts of rape, and one count of attempted rape after a trial on December 5, 2023.

In December last year, the Ernakulam rural police had booked Manu under charges of rape and several sections of the IT Act for allegedly sexually assaulting a survivor in a 2018 rape case who had approached him for help.

In the context of the current conflict, civilians, an overwhelming majority of whom are women and children, are women and girls, were and continue to be targeted with sexual violation, in particular rape, gang rape, by both parties to the conflict.