Sentences with phrase «rape victims do»

«There was a clearer rationale for the anonymity of defendants» proposal, in that rape victims do have anonymity at trial which other victims do not» I don't think that is a particularly clear rationale, though.

Thankfully we live in America, not Afghanistan or Iran, where rape victims don't face automatic assumption of complicity in their own assaults — although you would feel right at home in one of those places I fear.

It's also largely because of this that many rape victims don't report what happened to them.

Not exact matches

Nothing did more damage to Kalanick's reputation than Uber's response to a reported rape in India; an underling of Kalanick's obtained the victim's medical records in hope of proving she was faking her claim to hurt Uber and help a competing service.

It is important that rape victims feel comfortable stepping forward, Dana said, «and it saddens us to think that their willingness to do so might be diminished by our failings.»

Whether it's donating a portion of profits to support groups helping rape victims, giving free ad space to charity groups, or creating a new catalogue that is focused around stopping date rape, something substantial must be done for Bloomingdale's to come back stronger than before the ad release.

However, the suit further alleges that while Uber publicly denounced the rape it did little to support the victim.

Yes, it's victim blaming when you do it to someone who was robbed, as well as raped.

, tried to fight off her attacker (an act proven to be pointless, not to mention it's an ableist suggestion in the first place (doesn't take people with physical or mental disabilities into consideration)-RRB-, didn't let her rapist in (even though most rape victims know their attackers)-- she wouldn't have been raped.

Rape culture pushes the victim - blaming mentality: the idea that if * she * had done something differently — worn a different outfit (even though women get raped when dressed modestly; rapists don't care about what a person is wearing), didn't get drunk (opens a person up to anything, never mind that it is impossible for a person to give clear consent when they're intoxicated / inebriated), used the «buddy system» (what if she wanted to go out by herself?

Whose rule was it to execute your rebellious children, and rape victims who do not shout out?

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.

And we don't stone disobedient children or rape victims.

But only a quarter of reported rapes are instigated by people the victim does not know.

You ranted about people ensuring they don't pregnant... what about the victim of incest or rape?

It would be imprudent for a counselor to advise a rape victim to go guns - blazing into a battle without ever mentioning the possible negative repercussions of doing so.

Judging from the number of parents supporting and taking interest in this case and speaking out about rape and rape culture and the victimization of women and children, I would assume the majority of the world understands the purpose of Operation Roll Red Roll, which I believe is justice for the Jane Doe victim.

Speaking from personal experience, the only comments I have seen being made are support for rape victims and requests that Steubenville law enforcement does their job.

Our only goal is getting justice for the Jane Doe victim and bringing to light any accomplices to her rape that took place in August.

Here's what to do if your daughter or son is the victim of a rape.

Telling rape victims that it's the worst thing that could ever happen to them serves to compound the damage done.

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.

«The Basingstoke rape and sexual abuse centre, along with many other rape crisis centres, does an excellent job to support victims.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to lengthen the period New York hospitals are required to retain forensic rape kits, but a sexual assault survivor and leading victims» rights advocate doesn't believe the proposal goes far enough.

«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.

«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.

Cuomo wants to lengthen the period New York hospitals are required to retain forensic rape kits, but a sexual assault survivor and leading victims» rights advocate doesn't believe the proposal goes far enough.

Because how do you deny that it's hate when nine victims were targeted in a historic A.M.E. Church and when the killer said, «You're raping our women and taking over the country»?

«We all want to increase the rates of conviction for rape... and do so in a way which encourages and supports victims to come forward... while minimising the stigma attached to those who are falsely accused.

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«A rape victim is never at fault and we do not want the circumstances in which these assaults take place to cause any victim to doubt that,» said Sean Sutton, Head of the NCA's Serious Crimes Analysis Section.

«A rape victim is never at fault and we do not want the circumstances in which these assaults take place to cause any victim to doubt that.

The rape victims here don't mince words and neither do various authors, experts and legal advocates who appear on - screen, many of them retired military themselves.

Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused took a few brave stands, I think, in casting its victim as a flawed person we'd like to look down upon but who, despite her provocative attire and flirtatious gestures, still didn't deserve to be gang - raped atop a pinball machine.

To demonstrate their brutality to the audience, the baddies take a blowtorch to the side of a woman's face; to demonstrate Fulci's disdain for his women characters, he doesn't show the penetration in the rape, but he does show in intimate, scatological detail the humiliation, terror, and pain of the victim.

Only once he was told by police that the victim submitted to a rape kit and there was physical evidence — including semen, back, and neck bruises (from choking)-- did Bryant admit to having sexual intercourse with the victim.

Fine, they may not have liked these things at the time (or more likely didn't think much of it until victim points were up for grabs), but even you, in your lovely shiny white knight armour can't claim that is even close to rape.

Although there may be the odd genuine case of rape or assault, they are * VASTLY * drowned out by people jumping on the bandwagon to claim the much coveted victim points or to attack people they don't like.

Describing the crime to her husband that night - the attacker's calm and practiced demeanor, which led the victim to surmise «he's done this before» - Galbraith learned that the case bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town.

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.»

However, judgment of what the victim did before the assault or rape took place puts the responsibility of the offender's actions with the victim, which takes the focus off whether they consented to the sexual activity in question.

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.

Rape — An act of sexual intercourse that occurs when the victim does not consent and is held against their will.

In doing so, IPF began to press MSO to produce items of evidence, including the victim's rape kit, which were collected before trial and should have been retained in the MSO property room.

For example, after the release of Justice Zuker's lengthy decision, the victim was quick to point out that, despite the verdict being a «huge victory,» she is «tired of people talking to [her] like [she] won some sort of rape lottery because the legal system did what it is supposed to do.»

Could a prosecutor bring charges of rape, even if the victim decided she didn't want to bring charges?

But the victim would have to bring charges of rape, and she wouldn't do that.

Here's general stats out of a 1000 rape allegations the DA ONLY takes an average of 13 of them on and only one case has been prosecuted without a victims testimony This is another reason why people who are raped don't report it, (Btw I'm one of those ppl) that and primarily not is it only your word against his but there can be politics / beliefs at play that are set up to KEEP you silent like in my case.

Survivors of rape must bear social stigmatization which accident victims do not.

In response to Roy L. Watford, III's 2016 petition for writ of actual, all Commonwealth Supreme Court justices unanimously reversed his conviction, after the victim testified that she did not recall seeing Watford on the day she was gang raped (the hospital records» notation of Watford's name, therefore, was inconclusive).