Sentences with phrase «as victims of rape»

As a victim of rape at 16, my blood was absolutely boiling.

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Public humiliation, like Yvonne endured in the reactions to her childhood rape, which may be a part of the dismissive practices surroundign sexual violation must take place with appreciation of the victim - survivor's contribution of a counterpublic voice as a valuable societal contribution.»

When the victim of rape is nonwhite — as in the trial of Joan Little for the murder of her rapist — it takes the rousing of national support to get justice done.

In the past ten or 15 years many states have revised rape laws to encompass male as well as female victims, marital rape, acts of sexual coercion not involving intercourse and assaults in which there is no instance of resistance or physical harm.

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.

Home office minister Vernon Coaker countered that the vast majority of rapes are committed by men who know their victims, «so this type of rape is the biggest problem we have to deal with - not something to be dismissed as a lesser crime».

While stranger rape can be understood by the victim as a random, one - off event, the betrayal of trust in date rape can have a much more devastating effect on a person.

«He's said he's as anti-choice «about as much as any person could possibly be,» He said no to abortion even if a woman has been raped, no to abortion for victims of incest.

They also discuss how the roles of men, as active agents, and women, as passive victims, in war have been buttressed by current understandings of the use of rape in conflict zones and how this gendered understanding of conflict roles has negative consequences for the movement towards gender equality and the goal of eradicating rape in war.

Some stereotypes we easily reject, as they seem obvious; it is not particularly original to state that women are in the workforce and men are also victims of rape.

But victims» groups say that with many rape convictions carrying a sentence of just five years - only half of which might be served depending on behaviour - some sex offenders could face a sentence as short as 15 months.

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

As a Brooklyn rape case has grown more complicated, some members of the community have found themselves torn between a gut reaction to support the 18 - year - old alleged victim and nagging fears about a rush to judgment against the five teenagers accused of a heinous crime.

District Attorney Scott D. McNamara reported today that a Rome man and women were arrested by investigators assigned to the Oneida County Child Advocacy Center on April 8th as a result of an investigation into a prostitution and rape complaint involving a 15 year old victim.

The bill as it stands now would remove the need for prosecutors to prove that underage victims of trafficking were coerced into prostitution; elevate penalties for patronizing underage prostitutes to the level of statutory rape; and require that anyone under 18 arrested for a prostitution offense be tried in family court rather than criminal court.

They wrote: «The verdict and events in this case set a dangerous precedent that how a victim of rape, usually a woman, has behaved in the past can be taken as evidence of the way she behaved at the time of the alleged rape.

Cuomo's ad uses images of medical examination rooms with distraught women, presumably victims of rape or incest who became pregnant as a result of the crimes against them.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo is turning up the pressure on private colleges and universities — and urging victims to seek off - campus help from law enforcement officials to investigate rapes and assaults — as he tries to force education leaders to adopt a set of state policies on handling sex crimes.

Flint raised the issue again later in an adjournment debate tonight, arguing that singling out rape defendants for anonymity carried the clear inference that rape victims were less reliable, less credible and less trustworthy than victims of other violent crimes, such as domestic violence or child abuse.

Unfortunately Zoho who died as a result of the gunshot was the victim of the attempted rape.

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can trigger involuntary, distressing flashbacks in people who have been through trauma, such as soldiers or victims of rape.

Although international attention has focused primarily on extreme cases of sexual abuse by combatants, such as targeted mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers on gender - based violence are revealing a much wider scope of abuses, perpetrators and victims.

Wear sweatpants, or an outfit from the #HandmaidsTale and invite other victims of sexual assault / harassment rape as dates.

The truth is, as transgender people, we are more likely to be victims of violent assaults, being raped, or even worse.

Frequently fully naked, raped, assaulted, tortured, punched, stabbed and beaten, her character is almost as much of a victim as the one she plays in mother!

Singer Lady Gaga, herself a victim of sexual assault, used her Oscar performance as a medium to bring attention to rape culture.

It isn't until Agent Tate presents her with Charlie's other victims — not girlfriends, as he'd told her, but minors who filed rape charges — that she realizes what has happened to her and her life falls apart, along with that of her family.

The thing that struck me about what happened to Tonya Harding in the larger realm of sports, crime, and punishment is that whether you see Harding as a victim of her circumstances, or as an accomplice in this crime: her punishment is more severe than men who have beaten, raped, or even killed their wives.

The veteran French actress pulls off one of the year's most challenging characters — a rape victim who refuses to let her abuse define her — as she claims her identity as an entrepreneur, mother, and sexually active older woman.

Nicolas Cage stars as a high school teacher whose wife (January Jones) becomes the victim of a brutal rape.

40 Days and 40 Nights features no fewer than four separate conversations that confirm the «boys will be boys» worldview, and carries through on the sticky conceit of male as sexual victim by having its pivotal moment hinge on a man getting raped.

Isabelle Huppert is superb as a complex rape victim in Paul Verhoeven's fearless Elle, while Kelly Reichardt's study of female identity is lifted to the heavens by Kristen Stewart

The film's focus on first Willoughby's absolution for not solving Angela's case, then Jason's for repeatedly abusing his power as a police officer, increasingly pull attention away from the victim, so that a teenage girl's rape and murder eventually becomes the springboard for a pair of bad cops» redemption.

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.

Hence, where is the justice for the multitude of women who were the victims of rape, used as a tool and strategy of this war?

As with «barely legal» pornographic films, which seek to satisfy base urges associated with illegal and immoral acts while circumventing laws against depictions of underage sex, many of the titles listed on Amazon protest loudly that rape victims are «over 18».

Rape victims (usually women) end up on trial themselves for any behavior in their past which might have «invited» this crime upon themselves, while the raper is dismissed as giving into his natural urges; not optimum behavior but certainly not worthy of long prison terms.

An additional note: After writing about accounts of rape at the University of Montana in his most recent book, Jon uses his website as another way to help out, building his resources page specifically for victims of sexual assault.

I don't subjectify my women; rather, they allow me to reinvestigate a myth from my point of view: rather than rape, there's pleasurable co-joining, as in Danae and the Parakeet; rather than the terrified victim, there's resistant outrage, as in Europa and the Flying Fish.»

Day One, formerly known as the Rape Crisis Center of Rhode Island, has undertaken groundbreaking initiatives to ease the psychological burdens of the criminal justice process for victims of childhood sexual abuse and has been a leader in combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

The case resulted from a series of articles that portrayed Murphy as lenient towards criminal defendants and that quoted him as saying that a 14 - year - old rape victim should «get over it.»

Updated: A Michigan man and convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in an alleged rape of a 12 - year - old girl was awarded joint legal custody of the boy who was conceived as a result of the crime, according to the victim's lawyer.

But, in U.S. criminal law, even when a victim's lack of consent is an element of the crime, such as for the crimes of theft or rape, criminal liability can not be eliminated by having the victim ratify the perpetrator's conduct after the fact.

The chances of being a victim of a violent crime in Spring Valley, such as aggravated assault, rape, murder, or armed robbery, is 1 in 250.

The character of the victim does matter as the goal here is to establish they were of proper mind to not consent to being raped.

Testing on DNA of sperm found on the child's underwear worn during the rape excluded James Bain as the donor of the sperm, confirming that someone other than Bain raped the victim.

Travelers staying at hotels can become victims of thieves looking for valuables, or even violent crimes such as assault or rape.

But as with other acts of violence, individual rape victims should be able to file suit and collect substantial damages for their unspeakable injuries.

In response, the Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC) was established in 2003 as the first nonprofit law center in the nation solely dedicated to serving the legal needs of rape and sexual assault victims.