Sentences with phrase «victims of rape made»

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This book tells eight testimonies of forgiveness shared by a victim of violent rape, a concentration camp detainee and someone made blind, as well as those writing on the simple, daily forgiveness that we all need to offer.

The database will point out, for example, that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are supporting the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, who once said that victims of rape should make «what was really a lemon situation into lemonade,» and Ms. O'Donnell, who has said that having women in the service academies «cripples the readiness of our defense.»

And I'm pointing out that some argue that her being too drunk to consent does make her a rape victim under the law of affirmative consent.

But Rees - Evans was less keen to discuss a remark he made in 2014, when he said that his horse had been the victim of attempted rape by a gay donkey.

«I haven't put this idea to women who've been raped because I haven't met one recently but my experience of rape trials is that contesting a rape case makes things worse [for the victim],» he said.

Police said the arrest was made possible following a tipoff after some of the rape victims had reported their ordeal in the hands of the suspects to the State CID in Umuahia.

John Paul's ordeal has been made worse by various dramatic twists, including his own imprisonment for lashing out at one of the rapist's friends, however the underlying story of the rape victim's silence is by no means enhanced for our TV screens.

Kaplan made Hollywood's A-list with The Accused (1988), a fact - based account of a rape victim's quest for justice which featured Jodie Foster in her first Academy Award - winning role.

This made - for - TV drama is loosely adapted from the tale of a female victim who was beaten - up and gang raped in Central Park during a night of wilding.

Made up of interviews with rape victim soldiers, and military officials the film thoroughly examines a wall of military and government bureaucracy that allows, and even encourages, sexual predators to prey upon its military ranks.

But just like every other cinematic villain to get the revisionist treatment (from Dracula to the Evil Queen), Maleficent is stripped of everything that made her such a great character in the process, and perhaps even more troubling, as the victim of a creepy drug rape that's never addressed.

It is expected to include the obvious warnings that, contrary to common expectations, genuine victims of rape may sometimes take time to decide to make a complaint and that, instead of being upset and emotionally raw when they relive the experience in the witness box, the impact of post-traumatic stress can make victims seem unemotional and matter - of - fact.

The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.

The concentration on professional failings in this latest round of media coverage at least makes a refreshing contrast with the tone being set as recently as last November when the government's report was published on the responses to its 2006 consultation paper Convicting Rapists and Protecting Victims — Justice for Victims of Rape.

Some of these women spoke to me in private, sharing their stories so I could warn others about him, but refuse to come forward in public to make the claim, those who work with rape victims will know how hard it can be on women to come forward after a rape, and the circumstances of these rapes likely make it even harder for these women.