Former French minister convicted of rape

A former French government minister faces at least three years in prison after a court found him guilty of raping an employee during "f...

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Australian PM apologizes to ex-staffer alleging rape at work

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized to a former government staffer who alleged she was raped by a colleague in a minist...

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Five-year-old boy allegedly raped by group of children on remote Australian beach

A five-year-old boy was allegedly raped by three children in northern Australia earlier this month, police said. The alleged incident o...

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‘Pedophile told girl, 9, he would give her vanilla ice cream if she had sex with him’

Darian Helm, 23, was charged with trying to solicit sex from a nine-year-old girl in exchange for ice cream A suspected pedophile t...

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Man accused of dropping 13-year-old girl at hospital before her death gets added charge of rape

The girl died at a Massachusetts hospital on May 20 shortly after she was left there. Carlos Rivera, appears at his arraignment at Lawr...

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Australian jailed for UK backpacker's kidnap and rape ordeal

Elisha Greer was held for a month by Marcus Allyn Keith Martin An Australian man who raped a British backpacker during a month-long ki...

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Woman gang raped by three men on early morning walk near nature reserve

The victim was attacked by the men near the town of Elland in West Yorkshire and she required hospital treatment The area the sex attac...

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Indian police investigate alleged rape of girl in hospital

INDIA’S rape crisis appears to be worsening with the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl who was in hospital being treated for a snakebit...

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Child rapist 'depraved and callous'

A nondescript blue bag left in the home of a Queensland woman by someone she thought she could trust turned out to contain horrific eviden...

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Koh Tao rape claim: Thai police dismiss British teenager's case

Officers say they have insufficient evidence to continue investigating after visiting the UK to speak to the 19-year-old. The teenager ...

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Suspect Arrested In Germany After Bulgarian Journalist Raped And Killed

Police in Germany arrested a suspect in connection with the rape and killing of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova, whose brutal slayi...

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Football: Nike 'deeply concerned' by Ronaldo rape allegations

LOS ANGELES - US sporting goods giant Nike said on Thursday (Oct 4) the company was "deeply concerned" by rape allegations surro...

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Pope Francis summons bishops for summit to discuss clergy sex abuse

ROME—Alarmed by sexual abuse scandals in a number of countries, Pope Francis is summoning senior bishops to a meeting early next year to d...

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Indian Catholic nuns protest against bishop accused of rape

Demonstrations fuelled by politician questioning account of Franco Mullackal’s alleged victim The case has exposed deep ruptures inside...

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Pope Francis condemns child sex abuse and Church cover-ups

Pope Francis has condemned the "atrocities" of child sex abuse and clerical cover-ups in a letter to the world's 1.2bn Roman...

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Muzaffarpur scandal: Former social welfare minister Manju Verma, husband booked under Arms Act

The CBI had on Friday raided nearly 12 places in four districts of Bihar, including residences of Verma in Patna and her in-law's plac...

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Failed by Indonesia: the girl, 15, raped by her brother and jailed for abortion

The grisly truth behind a baby’s death has caused an outcry in a country where abortion laws take scant heed of circumstance The case ha...

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Rape at gunpoint is illegal in America? Tell that to the women we work with

US law ignores the violence routinely suffered by women in prostitution, and actively criminalises victims. Here, after a Guardian investi...

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Two Kerala priests accused of raping and blackmailing woman surrender

The two are among four priests accused in the rape and sexual exploitation of a woman by using her confessional statement made to one of th...

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