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Yet eight months after that, the judge in his rape case issued a pretrial ruling in which she ordered prosecutors to honor the defendant’s “preferred pronouns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Platner, a Marine veteran whose blunt anti-establishment message thrilled the progressive grassroots, quit the race after a rape allegation he denies.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

A New York judge declared a mistrial in disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape case in its third trial, after a jury said “no one is going to change where they stand.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Louisiana, an existing Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment for child rape to be unconstitutional.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.

From Slate ● May 7, 2025

Petty thefts are up by roughly 14%, but other property crimes — along with homicides, robberies and rapes — are all down from the same period in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Giambruno, whose partner is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was addressing recent alleged gang rapes in Italy.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023

In Ms. Willis’ first year as top prosecutor, Fulton County had 204 homicides, 284 rapes and over 1,000 robberies.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

In some counties there is an intermediate division, between the shire and the hundreds, as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex, each of them containing about three or four hundreds apiece.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“I find that Ritter’s statement that she was raped by Schmidt to be false.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

She waived her legal right to anonymity in her own trial, saying: "I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too."

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024

In America or Australia there are no hospitals where lie thousands of girls too young to become mothers who have been raped.

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)

UK rapper Yung Filly has been found not guilty of raping a fan after performing at a nightclub in Australia in 2024.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

In 2011, he received a Tony nomination for his role in The Scottsboro Boys, a musical based on the true story of nine Black teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Carroll sued Trump in November 2019 and seeks at least $10 million in damages over comments he made while in office that June after she first publicly accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2023

Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical tells the story of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a factory manager in Atlanta who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023

The New York jury on Tuesday cleared Mr. Trump of raping Ms. Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2023