rape
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He spent 23 years in prison before his 1999 rape conviction was vacated after his DNA was not detected in any of the blood or semen samples found at the scene.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
People sentenced for rape, serious child sex and grooming offences will now not be eligible for early release from October.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
A month after prosecutors filed the rape charges, Mr. Carroll was transferred to Salinas Valley State Prison, a men’s penitentiary, where he is still confined.
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
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
There's no requirement for police to record the ethnicity of suspects, but this was recorded in 113 of the 170 rapes reported in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
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
R rapes, turnips, 13/36. raye, striped cloth, 14/39.
From Dialogues in French and English by Henry Bradley
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
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
An Australian senator is suing a former staff member who says she was raped inside Parliament House for defamation, over claims the politician helped cover it up.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
But with the sense that she had impiously raped her joy from the heavens themselves came the exultation that not even the gods could ever take that from her.
From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
In her first lawsuit, Carroll accused Trump of defaming her when he insulted her and denied raping her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Earlier this year, ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos appeared on the network’s “This Week” news program and asserted that Trump was found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Mr Malkinson was found guilty in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester and only had his conviction quashed last month at the Court of Appeal.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
Michael Ferrera, another of Carroll's attorneys, said Trump "just decided not to be here. He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll."
From Salon ● May 9, 2023
