An Army Sergeant employed at West Point Military Academy has been charged with secretly videotaping female cadets in the school's showers and locker rooms.
The U.S. military has now had three men in charge of programs to limit harassment or violence against women accused of similar crimes revolving around harassment and violence against women in the same month. It's only May 16th.
An Army coordinator for a sexual assault prevention office at Fort Hood was accused of "abusive sexual contact" on Tuesday.
There were 3,374 rapes in the military last year, a 6 percent increase, and an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults — news that comes from a Pentagon report released Tuesday, the day after news arrived from the Air Force that its officer in charge of sexual assault prevention office was charged with sexual assault. But there are really two problems here: rapists, and bringing rapists to justice.
The officer in charge of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention office has been charged... with sexual assault, for allegedly grabbing a woman's breasts and butt in a parking lot. According to police, the woman fought him. And judging by the photo of his face, well, she beat him up.
The reason the press has stayed mostly silent in the wake of sexual assault allegations connected to Silicon Valley big-wig Michael is not because, as several have suggested, the tech world is scared of the TechCrunch founder.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and today marks the kickoff of a new program focused on Laurie Halse Anderson's classic Y.A. novel Speak, which tells the story of a high school girl coping in the aftermath of being raped.
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The trial starts Wednesday, and despite pre-trial testimony from teammates describing an unconscious 16-year-old dragged around by her hands and feet before she was penetrated, it appears that the lawyers for Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond will say the case's Jane Doe consented to the whole thing.
The alleged leader of the brutal and widely-publicized Delhi gang rape that killed 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey was found dead in in his cell on Monday morning, but his family isn't buying the official story.
We've heard a lot of falsehoods on the topic this year, from women being too weak to men not wanting to poop in front of them. But The National Review's Heather Mac Donald has a new one: Women can't serve in combat because when they get raped by fellow soldiers, they get too depressed.
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Police hesitated after three sisters aged five, nine and 11 went missing on Valentine's Day in a remote Indian village. Two days later, the girls were found raped, murdered and dumped in a well.
During a televised shouting match over guns, Bob Beckel — the token liberal on Fox News' roundtable show The Five — expressed his own ignorance about rape by asking, "When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?"
With a month to go before the delayed trial of the so-called "rape crew" begins, the Ohio attorney general now says he doesn't have enough evidence to charge any of the other members of the "crew" already tried in the court of social media.
If you thought hackers and the media had brought a lot of attention upon the tough town of Steubenville, Ohio, just wait until everyone gets to see the legal fate of two of its high-school football stars accused of sexual assault play out in public there.
The Indian Juvenile Justice board ruled Monday that one of the suspects in a fatal gang rape last month will be tried as a juvenile—and if convicted, the worst sentence he can face for the will be three years in a detention facility.
Until now no military or political leader has explicitly linked the two. Here's why that's a big deal.
With news of yet another pair of horrific incidents, the recent spate of gangs attacking and raping women on buses in India is now a trend.
Despite the ongoing and controversial efforts of their lawyers to paint the alleged attackers as victims, it looks like swift justice will hammer down on the men accused of gang-raping a woman on a bus in New Delhi — and there's already been a prison fight.
The federal government delayed the arrest of an inter for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez until after the November election, new government documents confirm. The story is complex, so here's what we know about the timeline.
The emotional divide between increasingly ugly new accusations and apparently unflinching politicians expanded on Tuesday, as thousands of protestors took to the Indian state of Goa over reports that seven-year-old girl was raped in a school restroom.
Ohio's attorney general has revealed that student witnesses during a preliminary hearing never got an immunity deal, throwing open the possibility that testimony could be used against at least three more members of the Big Red football team. Who are they? And what does it say about that alleged cover-up?
After suggesting that his defense would center on blaming the New Delhi gang-rape victim for her own rape, Manohar Lal Sharma is now claiming that his clients were tortured into giving a confession.
On Wednesday night, reports surfaced that the FBI had opened an investigation into threats on Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla's family and a suspected computer virus that targeted Steubenville Police Chief William McCafferty.
Three men who police say brutally raped 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey on a bus in New Delhi — after which one of them allegedly tried to run her over with it — will plead not guilty to charges of rape and murder.
Ahead of next month's rape trial of two Ohio high-school football players, the secretive editors, hackers, and lawyers behind LocalLeaks disclose to The Atlantic Wire how they're enhancing their operation — and the "huge revelations" still on the way.
A social-media firestorm has spent the last week enveloping the city, and on Tuesday morning it took a frightening turn: all district schools in the city went on a precautionary lockdown after police received word of "some type of shooting threat made on social media."
As a petition seeking "real justice" crosses the threshold that will demand a public response as high up as the White House, here's a look back at the small city's long history of corruption, from a Justice Department investigation to rape survivors just now coming forward with tales of the police discouraging them from speaking out.
The Steubenville rape case is rapidly broadening in blame to include more of the so-called "Rape Crew," as Kent State University is now reviewing the status of an accepted student athlete who may have hosted the party where the alleged rape took place.
Five of the men accused in the Delhi's now notorious rape and murder case appeared in court for the first time today as it was revealed that two of them may be looking to testify against the others.
With a flood of national media attention and the wrath of Anonymous nipping at his heels, one of the teens accused of rape in Steubenville, Ohio is trying to get his trial postponed and relocated.
Fred Abdalla has been targeted as a symbol of the corrupt nature of the Ohio city and its football team ever since the hacking collective made the rape charges national news again this week. So it was strange to see the sheriff on stage at the Anonymous rally Saturday afternoon.
Steubenville High's famed football coach may resign as soon as Monday, and the recent graduate whose shocking video confession was leaked by hackers who took the case national may be in trouble with his college.
The latest information posted to Local Leaks, the Wikileaks-like site that has devoted itself to finding details about Steubenville's so-called "Rape Crew", is what they say is an account from the night of the alleged gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl.
Rebecca Dana on Current TV, Paul Krugman on budget bickering, Jeremy Warner on robotic economic growth, Tim Padgett on Venezuela's ailing leader, and William Pesek on India's rape case.
An alleged rape in an Ohio town has transformed from a local controversy with a curious social-media angle to an all-out Internet crusade, with potential cover-ups, prosecutors colluding with coaches, disgusting new video, and hackers to the rescue. Here's a primer.
India has continued to reel following the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, and now, as her attackers face charges, a map looks at the country through rape statistics
Police in India will reportedly submit 50 pages of criminal charges against five men on Thursday, including murder, rape, robbery, assault, and kidnapping for the brutal gang rape of a young woman that has generated worldwide outrage.
An already emotional case became that much more complex today when a WikiLeaks-style site dumped new information about football boosters, the town sheriff, and the alleged "Rape Crew" information rounded up by the anonymous hacking collective.
Police reports revealed today that the six men accused of the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student allegedly tried to run over over her after they raped and attacked her with an iron rod. That, on top of worldwide outrage, is making it really tough for these men to find legal representation.
As India drags its feet to prosecute the six men whose gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus led to her death and continuing protests across the country, we're finding out more about the victim.
The woman who was shockingly gang raped in India has been cremated, and the men who attacked her have all finally been charged with murder.
The 23-year-old woman who was raped and attacked by six men on a moving bus in New Delhi, India, setting off a wave of protest and government action through the country, died as a result of her injuries in a Singapore hospital Friday.
In some countries, wearing a miniskirt or exposing your midriff can bring you catcalls and second looks. In Swaziland, it can bring you jail time.
Move over Todd Akin. Step aside Richard Mourdock. Derek Johnson has something totally ignorant to say about rape—namely that women's bodies "will not permit that to happen" if they really don't want it.
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, four female service members sued the Defense Department on Tuesday for the right to fight in combat units, just like their male counterparts.
Today in Poll Watch: Internal polls from both sides present conflicting but not-pretty pictures for Richard Mourdock in Indiana, Colorado is neck-and-neck in the presidential race, and tracking polls conflict again.
To judge by just the headlines from the last few months, you'd think our election was not taking place in enlightened America, where women have been able to vote almost 100 years, but in some distant country that's still struggling with the idea that you should punish rapists, not rape victims.
Barack Obama was a barrel of laughs on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Wednesday night. Not really, though, because the president's sense of humor is just like your dad's.
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says he's sorry if people misunderstood what he meant when he said a rape pregnancy is a "gift from God."
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