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Mental competency hearing delayed for US priest charged with raping teen
Lawrence Hecker is charged with raping teenager after strangling him in 1975 in a New Orleans...
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US federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close
Since 2021, eight employees of Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, charged with assaulting female prisonersThe...
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‘Guilty men have got away with it’: fears over rise of ‘sexsomnia’ defence in rape cases
Concerns that rare sleep disorder is being used as an ‘escape route’ in sexual offence trials...
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Dismay as Louisiana lookback law for child sexual abuse victims struck down
Court rules 4-3 to overturn law that had allowed victims to file civil suits over sexual...
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Labour to give police emergency powers to charge domestic abuse suspects
Crime crackdown plan also gives victims of rape and sexual assault the right to specialist support...
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Crown Prosecution Service lawyers trivialise teen sexual abuse, report says
Exclusive: Independent examination of rape prosecutions hears lawyers are ‘obsessed’ with credibility of victims and use...
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Liberty University fined $14m over ‘culture of silence’ around sexual assault
Christian evangelical institution punished victims ‘for violating the student code of conduct’ as ‘assailants were left...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual assault by male music producer
Allegations, which rapper and mogul denies, is the latest in a series of lawsuits accusing him...
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‘Deeply alarming’: sevenfold increase in sexual attacks at Darién Gap, says Médecins Sans Frontières
More than half a million people made treacherous, weeklong trek in 2023, facing horrors including mass...
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New York to expand definition of rape after E Jean Carroll’s case against Trump
Current definition was factor in Carroll’s sexual abuse case, which was highlighted by Governor Kathy Hochul...
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Charity with Prince Harry as director investigating rape and torture claims
African Parks examines alleged atrocities against Indigenous people by its Congo Republic guards after ‘decade of...
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Women subjected to violence and sexual assaults resulting in pregnancies after NSW floods, study finds
Exclusive: Despite the immediate horrors, women have largely led recovery efforts where government has failed, researchers...
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Vin Diesel accused of sexual battery in lawsuit by former assistant
Asta Jonasson alleges Fast and Furious actor assaulted her in 2010 in Atlanta hotel during Fast...