Rape

Rather that focusing on rare cases of false charges, let's have a more typical look at rape, at least what we can garner from news reports.


Freed Sex Offender Accused of Rape Days Later
He is accused of raping an 18 year old woman just days after being released from prison.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020671950_sexoffenderxml.html

A defendant in the gang rape case of a 15-year-old girl struck a plea agreement Wednesday, March 27, for a lesser charge.
http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_22902436/st-paul-gang-rape-suspect-pleads-guilty

"In 2001, my identical twin, Cara, was raped by Edgardo Hernandez, a stranger, when we were 24. It was a violent act that destroyed her. And then it almost destroyed me.

After her rape, Cara took drugs in quantities that would prove to be lethal, doses she felt she needed to help her forget. She died from an overdose of heroin laced with fentanyl, a pain medication, on a late spring afternoon — June 13, 2006. And even though her death was an accident, no one who knew Cara doubts that Hernandez, though he didn’t murder her, took her life nonetheless. It just took four years, seven months and 26 days."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-my-twin-sisters-rape-there-were-many-victims/2013/03/28/09ac8442-9622-11e2-894a-b984cbdff2e6_story.html

Manassas rape: Woman sexually assaulted at gunpoint
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/03/manassas-rape-woman-sexually-assaulted-at-gunpoint-86873.html


Memphis rape case ends in mistrial as jury tampering by deputy is alleged

"A Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy was suspended Friday after two women jurors told a judge the deputy urged them to acquit a youth minister on trial on rape charges."

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/mar/29/memphis-rape-case-ends-in-mistrial-as-jury-by-is/

Georgia man sentenced in attempted rape, assault
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/mar/29/georgia-man-sentenced-attempted-rape-assault/

"One of the sons of Judge Judith Sheindlin is a suburban district attorney who is being accused of interfering in a child rape case in which the suspect is his personal trainer and recently lived with him.

Read more: http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Judge-Judy-s-son-a-DA-embroiled-in-NY-rape-case-4396028.php#ixzz2P0N0PZb3

2nd arrest made in 1991 Charlotte rape case

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/29/3947808/2nd-arrest-made-in-1991-charlotte.html

Bus driver ‘unaware’ of schoolgirl rape ordeal

"The driver of a bus on which a 14-year-old girl was raped was unaware of the attack, his company has said.

The girl was attacked on the top deck of the 57 as it left Silverburn shopping centre in Pollok, Glasgow, at about 10:30pm on Friday 22 March."
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/bus-driver-unaware-of-schoolgirl-rape-ordeal-1-2866776

Utica man charged with rape

http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/Utica-man-charged-with-rape/QZ4e7BZpy0y6OUMsCP-CfQ.cspx

Quntavion Dewayne Spivey has been arrested in connection with three rapes in Tifton.
http://www.walb.com/story/21832124/tifton-rape-suspect-caught

I could easily find 20 more reports from the last 24 hours alone. Then consider for a minute that only a small percentage of rapes are actually reported.