Sentences with phrase «rape victim turned»

In addition to training teachers to implement the curriculum, all classrooms will receive printed teacher books, student journals, videos and copies of Priya's Shakti a celebrated graphic novel about a female rape victim turned super hero in an Indian village.

Twenty or so years later, Miral's future mother Nadia (Yasmine Al Massri), a runaway rape victim turned belly dancer, winds up in prison after hitting a fellow bus rider who calls her an «Arab whore.»

Not exact matches

«If a victim was to go to the hospital and doesn't want to cooperate with police at that time, the hospital doesn't necessarily turn over that rape kit to a local police department,» said Captain Jeff Rinaldo, with Buffalo Police.

Miss Harman said the move would «turn the clock back» and send a «devastating message» to rape victims that they should not be believed.

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.

Under the common law rule, the victim would have been deemed to have turned 16 that day, thus enabling the defendant to defeat the statutory rape charges.