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Ex-Israeli Prez to Face Rape Charge

(Newser) - Israel's top lawman will charge ex-President Moshe Katsav with raping and sexually harassing his former employees, the BBC reports. In the latest development of a nearly 3-year legal drama, Israeli officials said that "the complainants' testimony was reliable and that there is sufficient evidence for an indictment." ...

Dad Says Military Masked Rape-Murder as Suicide

Questions raised about dead soldiers who may have been sexually abused

(Newser) - A California father is accusing the US military of covering up the rape and murder of his soldier daughter who authorities say committed suicide, reports the Los Angeles Times. Army Pfc. LaVena Johnson, found dead of a rifle blast in her mouth in an Iraq contractor's tent without a suicide...

Rape Victim Asks for Forgiveness
Rape Victim Asks for Forgiveness
Mar 7, 2009 5:19 PM CST

Rape Victim Asks for Forgiveness

NC woman who named wrong attacker bonds with innocent man

(Newser) - Every day for 11 years, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino prayed for her rapist to die. But the man she identified to police wasn’t her attacker. “That was unbearable,” Thompson-Cannino tells NPR. “Discovering the truth filled me with overwhelming guilt and shame for mistakenly putting an innocent man in...

Fritzl's Daughter Will Get Profits From TV Tell-All

Creditors agree to unusual deal for Elisabeth, 6 children

(Newser) - Creditors in Austria will donate the proceeds from an interview with Josef Fritzl to the daughter he raped and imprisoned for 24 years, the Austrian Times reports. Elisabeth Fritzl and her six children were about to be left with nothing after creditors divvied up her father’s bankrupt estate, which...

Imprisonment Began as Detox for Daughter: Fritzl

(Newser) - Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl defended his imprisonment of daughter Elisabeth as necessary to stop her abuse of household chemicals, the Daily Mail reports. “She had been sniffing cleaning fluids and I decided I should talk with her in my cellar,” Fritzl said of the day in 1984...

Amazon Yanks Video Rape Game
 Amazon Yanks 
 Video Rape Game 




Feb 15, 2009 11:32 AM CST

Amazon Yanks Video Rape Game

Finally decides it's not appropriate after consumer complaints

(Newser) - Amazon will no longer offer a video rape game, following consumer complaints, reports the Daily Telegraph. The Japanese game Rapelay instructs virtual players to stalk and rape women, then force them to abort any resulting pregnancies. "We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item,...

Texas Could See First-Ever Posthumous Exoneration

DNA evidence vindicates dead convict

(Newser) - A hearing this week could result in Texas’ first-ever posthumous exoneration based on DNA evidence, the AP reports. Tim Cole, who died of a heart attack in prison in 1999, was convicted in the 1985 rape of a Texas Tech student. But an imprisoned rapist’s recent admission of guilt,...

CIA Official Accused of Raping Two Muslim Women

Station chief in Algeria under investigation

(Newser) - A CIA station chief in Algeria is under investigation for allegedly raping two Muslim women after knocking them unconscious with date-rape drugs, ABC News reports. The agency sent him back to the US in October after the women came forward a month earlier about the separate attacks. The allegations surface...

Berlusconi Rape Comment Triggers Outrage

Too many beautiful women to protect, says prime minister

(Newser) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's comment that his nation is facing increasing rapes because Italy has such "beautiful women" has sparked an uproar, reports the Times of London. He vowed to deploy more soldiers to fight crime, but said it will be impossible to protect everyone. "We could...

Sex Offender Wins Lottery Run by Victims' Group

Winner may donate portion of $350K to charity

(Newser) - Advocates for victims of sexual assault sponsored a lottery—only to watch a sex offender walk away with $350,000 after taxes, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The group itself is likely to take home only between $2,000 and $20,000 after expenses. His victims discussed their shock at...

College Athletes Busted in Videotape Rape

(Newser) - Two Santa Ana College football stars and a friend have been busted for videotaping their gang rape of an unconscious teen, according to Orange County cops. The 18-year-old victim, who was dating a friend of the men, was called to a hotel where the group was partying. The men took...

4 Busted in 'Hate Crime' Rape of Lesbian

Tips from outraged San Francisco area led to suspects

(Newser) - Police have arrested all four suspects in the Bay Area kidnapping and gang rape of a lesbian last month that police have deemed a hate crime, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The two adults and two teenagers face charges including felony kidnapping to commit a sex crime, carjacking and gang...

It's Time We Confront 'Not Rape'
It's Time
We Confront 'Not Rape'
Dec 31, 2008 4:53 PM CST

It's Time We Confront 'Not Rape'

In gray area of sex violations, models are especially vulnerable

(Newser) - The definition of rape needs an update—more and more, men prey on young girls who are made to feel they are complicit in "a million male behaviors that are not so much rape as rape-ish,” and models are especially vulnerable, writes one in Jezebel. In a look...

Cops: SF Bay Lesbian Gang-Raped in Hate Crime

Attackers taunted victim over her sexual orientation

(Newser) - Bay Area police are treating the brutal gang rape of a lesbian as a hate crime, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The victim, who displayed a gay pride sticker on her license plate, was kidnapped, gang-raped and dumped naked by four men who taunted about her sexual orientation. A $10,...

Slain Anchor Was Raped, Beaten
Slain Anchor Was Raped, Beaten
Dec 1, 2008 7:45 PM CST

Slain Anchor Was Raped, Beaten

Parents tell Matt Lauer she broke hand, jaw before being killed

(Newser) - The parents of slain anchorwoman Anne Pressly said today she was raped and beaten before being killed, KATV reports. They told the Today show's Matt Lauer that Pressly's hand and jaw were broken in the attack, reports the AP. "This monster stole my daughter's innocence," Pressly's mother said....

DNA Led Cops to Pressly Murder Suspect

Officials say forensics tie man to anchor's murder, teacher's rape

(Newser) - Police in Little Rock say forensic evidence led them to a suspect in the murder of news anchor Anne Pressly, reports KATV. A DNA sample from Pressly's home matched DNA found at the scene of an unsolved rape in Marianna, 90 miles away. Marianna police pointed investigators to rape suspect...

'Brit Fritzl' Impregnated Daughters for Child Benefits

Rapist father lived off pay for incest babies

(Newser) - A British man sentenced to life for raping his daughters over a 30-year period wanted them pregnant so he could collect child benefits from the government, his sister-in-law told the Daily Telegraph. The man, 56, impregnated his two daughters a total of 19 times, resulting in nine children, two of...

'Brit Fritzl' Gets Life for Raping Daughters 30 Years

'Worst case' judge has ever seen

(Newser) - A British father has been sentenced to 25 life terms for raping his two daughters over nearly 30 years and impregnating them 19 times, reports the Guardian. Nine of the pregnancies resulted in children, all with genetic abnormalities, and two died at birth. Other pregnancies miscarried or were terminated. The...

UK to Slap Johns With Rape
 UK to Slap Johns With Rape 
Nov 19, 2008 11:18 AM CST

UK to Slap Johns With Rape

Crackdown targets those who deal with trafficked prostitutes

(Newser) - Lay a finger on a trafficked sex worker, and the Brits will slap you with rape and toss you in the clink, reports the BBC. New laws will make it a criminal offense in England and Wales to pay for sex with prostitutes controlled by pimps, as Britain's Home secretary...

Women Side Against Rape Victims: Mirren

'Jealous' female jurors would 'say she was asking for it'

(Newser) - Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren caused a stir in London today by saying female jurors are unlikely to side with rape victims. “Women on a rape case would say she was asking for it,” Mirren told the London Times. “The only reason I can think of is that...

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