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5 October 2023, 09:48 BST Updated 19 minutes ago Image caption, Rossi, pictured during a court hearing, claims to be Arthur Knight and a victim of mistaken identity Scotland’s justice secretary has confirmed that the extradition of the American fugitive Nicholas Rossi can go ahead. Angela Constance signed the extradition order last week after a […]
A US man who served seven and a half years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been cleared nearly five decades later thanks to new DNA evidence, authorities said. Leonard Mack, now 72, was arrested in 1975, in Greenburgh, New York state, after the rape of a teenage girl who had […]
The closest abortion clinic for a 13-year-old Black girl in Cleveland, Miss., who was raped is 600 miles away in Chicago. Although Mississippi has a near-total abortion ban, pregnant people can get an abortion if they have been raped or if the pregnancy is causing life-threatening conditions. But the girl and her mother were unaware […]
31 May 2023 Updated 23 minutes ago Image source, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Image caption, Masterson arrives at the Los Angeles court to learn his fate with his wife, Bijou Phillips A jury in Los Angeles has found US actor Danny Masterson guilty on two out of three counts of rape. The star […]
The Indiana Medical Licensing Board in the midwestern United States has opened a disciplinary hearing against a doctor after she spoke out about offering abortion care to a 10-year-old rape victim last June. The doctor, Caitlin Bernard, initially told her story to The Indianapolis Star newspaper to illustrate the immediate effects of a Supreme Court […]
The Trump rape trial enters its final phase Lawyers delivered closing arguments today in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of battery and defamation. The jury in Manhattan will begin deliberating tomorrow. Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a department store, […]
Comment on this story Comment Five U.S. soldiers were arrested on rape charges after allegedly sexually assaulting two women at a home in Louisiana, authorities said. The soldiers went to the home of a woman in the area of Rosepine, La., on Nov. 24, gave the woman and her roommate alcohol that incapacitated them, then […]
SHANGHAI, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Billionaire Richard Liu, founder of one of China’s largest e-commerce platforms JD.com, has settled a civil suit brought by former University of Michigan student Liu Jingyao, who had accused him of rape. The suit was part of a long-running legal battle between Richard Liu and Liu Jingyao, who was a […]
Comment on this story Comment No one wanted the story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio to be true. How could they? It’s grim and disconcerting in the way that only such crimes can be. Some people wanted it not to be true for another reason.
A Black man who was freed from prison this year after 44 years behind bars for attempted rapes he says he didn’t commit has sued the officials who helped get him convicted, alleging a cover-up that ended up with him being framed. Vincent Simmons’ conviction was overturned in February by a judge who said Simmons, […]