rape
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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
The incident made headlines, and prompted dozens of MPs to express concern that Judge Tolson was still hearing Family Court cases involving allegations of rape and domestic abuse outside London.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Louisiana, an existing Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment for child rape to be unconstitutional.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
“The District Attorney’s Office did the right thing dismissing this rape charge that should never have been brought in the first place,” Kaplan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Today the FBI’s juvenile violent-crime index, which measures arrests for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, is lower than it was in 1980, and that’s true across racial lines.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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Reform UK's treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick also previously condemned the sentence, telling the BBC: "It can never be right that a young person kills someone or rapes someone and they do not go to jail."
From BBC ● May 30, 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
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
By the time he met his future wife, Margie, in 1956, Galindo had been on abortion cases for five years, working those along with murders and rapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
R rapes, turnips, 13/36. raye, striped cloth, 14/39.
From Dialogues in French and English by Bradley, Henry
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
An MP has said he was raped after a night out nearly a decade ago, as he called for an end to the stigma around being a victim of sexual assault.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
Happy, who like Ulysses or that lord Who raped the fleece, returning full and sage, With usage and the world's wide reason stored, With his own kin can wait the end of age.
From Poems by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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
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
Bruce Lehrmann has always denied raping Ms Higgins and a criminal verdict on the allegation has never been delivered.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
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
Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty at a retrial Friday of one count of raping a woman and the attempted rape of another woman.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023