Sentences with phrase «reporting rape»

It has suspended users for simply sharing threatening messages they've received, and those reporting rape threats have been told the messages do not violate Twitter's rules.

This study on the lack of disclosure of sexual assault by refugees and asylum seekers to the UK offers insights to cultural influences on reporting rape.

Figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 percent in five years.

Figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 % in five years.

I hate to get heavy here, and ruin your buzz, but alarming figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 % in five years.

The fear of a complainant being confronted with evidence relating to sex with other men is, and has always been, a huge deterrent to reporting rape.

Other positive developments include a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal allowing trial judges to explain to jurors why a victim would have delayed reporting a rape to police, helping to alleviate the influence of the rape myth.

A Michigan State student claims that the she raped by three MSU basketball players back in 2015 and was discouraged from reporting the rape after it was reported that basketball players were involved.

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.

Broaddrick claims she was traumatized by the incident and scared of Clinton's influence, and so didn't report the rape, or tell her then - husband, Gary Hickey.

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

-- She was raped by 3 members of the MSU basketball team in 2015 — She reported the rape to a counselor, who acted differently when it was apparent those accused were athletes

In a speech that pleased anti-rape campaigners, the Tory leader last month set out plans to increase the rape conviction rate, highlighting that three - quarters of raped women do not report the crime and only 5.7 per cent of reported rapes result in a conviction.

In another case, a woman reported a rape to her doctor after a man had refused to stop having sex with her after she told him she was in pain.

Less than ten per cent of all reported rapes result in a conviction while less than six per cent of all rapes are reported nationally.

When most people imagine rape, they envisage an attack by a stranger, alone, who uses a weapon and force to subdue his non-intoxicated victim who fights back, sustains injuries and reports the rape immediately afterwards.

November ended with another record low in most serious city crime but a rise in reported rapes, NYPD officials said Monday, attributing the spike to widespread coverage of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct against celebrities.

City sees 15.6 percent spike in reported rapes over same time in 2016.

Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce added that there had been 32 more cases of reported rapes in 2017 than the previous year.

Alarmed over the number of reported rapes in the city, elected officials are calling on police to beef up security.

November ended with another record low in serious city crime but a rise in reported rapes, NYPD officials said, attributing the spike to widespread coverage of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct against celebrities.

A nurse encouraged him to report the rape but when he did he was discouraged from making a formal complaint.

Almost four in ten (38 per cent) reported physical violence, a quarter (25 per cent) reported rape, and three in ten (30 per cent) said their clients had been violent towards them.

Brewer revealed that although reported crimes in New York City were largely down in 2015, there was been a 6.3 percent increase in reported rapes.

One Mrs. Ayesi Balogun has been reported raped and killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen on the 7th of February at Asa village in the Oja Odan...

CIVIC CENTER — There were more than 2,800 fewer major crimes this year compared with the same period of time last year, but homicides and reported rapes were still higher, the NYPD announced Monday.

Ceri Goddard, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for sexual equality, welcomed the shift, but accused the Government of holding «lingering sexist stereotypes» about women who report rape.

«If men accused of rape got special rights to anonymity, it would reinforce the misconception that lots of women who report rape are lying.

Eighty - five percent of those reporting rapes were female and 15 percent were men.

Officials also say a higher percentage of victims each year are coming forward to report rape.

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER — Aug 11 — Reported rape is up 16 % in Mecklenburg County this year, fueled by the popularity of Internet dating and online classifieds offering sexual services.

And anyway, we also see that it's not in military women's best interests to report their rapes.)

An intertitle reveals an even more horrifying reason not to come forward: 25 percent of women in the military don't report rape because the person to notify was the rapist.

Until a few months ago, there was no way to go above your commander to report a rape.

This can not be dismissed as one of the usual horrors women who report rape, in the military or in the civilian world, face, the suggestion that they weren't really raped and are merely «misinterpreting» a consensual encounter or are being cattily vindictive after the fact for some bizarre reason that exists only in the minds of people looking to ignore rape.

Then in 2009, a reported rape led Cleveland police to a grisly discovery — the bodies of eleven women decomposing in the house and yard of known sex offender Anthony Sowell.

In the majority of reported rape cases, the victims are women, however, a considerable number of men experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime.

That 21 years old girl will have strong incentive not to report the rape due to statutory rapes law.

Just 5.3 % of all reported rapes currently end in conviction.

An accompanying article dealt with the «justice gap» between reported rapes and convictions and there followed the next day in the same newspaper a further account of the reasons for the very low prosecution rate, featuring comments by the director of public prosecutions (DPP), Sir Ken Macdonald, and the solicitor general, Vera Baird, among others, in which they attributed it in part to police and prosecutorial under - performance.

Such stigmas result in very low numbers of reported rapes by men.

In December, the same case revealed the reported rape of a Microsoft intern by a fellow intern, who was subsequently hired by the company.

Perhaps more upsetting — Congressman Akin suggests that not all reported rapes are legitimate or «real» rapes.

According to the National Violence against Women Survey, 1 out of 4 U.S. women has been raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner, while 1 out of 14 U.S. men reported rape or physical assault (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000b).

Not exact matches

According to new data from the Pentagon, incidences of rape and sexual assault within the U.S. military are up 10 % over the last fiscal year, reaching the highest number of reported assaults since at least 2006.

As initially reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, an American woman named Kristie Love was raped by a security guard at the Iberostar Paraiso Maya resort in Mexico seven years ago.

After looking at what has been reported in many publications over the last couple of days, I'm appalled and commend the courage of the women who've stepped forward to report sexual abuse or rape.

In 2014, 36,735 rapes were committed and nearly 338,000 crimes against women were reported, according to data from India's National Crime Records Bureau.

The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonourable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts - martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

Journalists are right to be sensitive to the feelings of rape victims, the report said, but they need to balance that instinct with rigorous verification, which it said was in the best interest of the survivor.