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U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

CNN -- A young man whose arranged marriage to a young cousin led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was charged Wednesday with her rape. Prosecutors filed the rape charge against Allen Steed, 26, a day after a jury found Jeffs guilty of two.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- Beleaguered and disbarred former District Attorney Mike Nifong, who prosecuted the Duke University lacrosse rape case, could wind up in jail if a motion is granted asking that criminal charges be filed against him. The three Duke lacrosse players false.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

USA Today -- A nursing student told women he met on an online dating site that he was a doctor, an astronaut or spy in a ruse to lure them out so he could drug and rape them, a prosecutor said Monday. Jeffrey J. Marsalis, the 34-year-old on-and-off student, met six.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:28pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case. Jerry Miller smiled and the cou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:02pm neoform

FOX News -- A homeless ex-convict was arrested in the rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student, who was held hostage for 19 hours in her apartment, cut with a knife and left tied up with the bed set ablaze. Robert Williams, 30, faces attempted mu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 10:21pm neoform

News.com.au -- A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who was acquitted on Friday night of multiple rape was locked up for almost a year awaiting trial. Patrick Waring, then a 15-year-old Catholic college student, was dragged out of bed by police a year ago and refused bail on nothing bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 6:29pm neoform

FOX News -- Three teenage boys took turns raping a 12-year-old girl, filmed the assault with a mobile phone camera and showed the video to classmates, Austrian authorities said Friday. Police said the rape happened after a birthday party in Freistadt in the provin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

FOX News -- A man believed to be responsible for the 1991 rape and strangling of a 14-year-old girl killed himself in prison hours after investigators told him DNA evidence linked him to the unsolved case, authorities said Monday. Derick Moncada, 35, was serving t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 11:22pm neoform

ABC News -- A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was convicted Sunday of murdering a photographer, whose charred bones were found in a burn pit outside his home. Steven Avery, 44, put his head down and shook it when the verdict was read... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 3:35pm mrmdc

St. Petersburg Times -- First, police say, a 21-year-old woman was raped at Gasparilla. Then, she was handcuffed and jailed - for two nights and two days... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 3, 2006 @ 1:00am neoform

ABC News -- It was the shocking story — and unbelievable surveillance video — that riveted the nation. A young McDonald's employee humiliated, forced to strip and then to perform a sexual act in the back office, during her work day... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 8:23am neoform

Reuters -- One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl before killing her and her family was conditionally sentenced on Thursday to up to 90 years in prison with the possibility of parole... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 6:32pm neoform

Stuff.co.nz -- Ashwin Ellis, 18 and unemployed, was arrested after the September 19 home invasion in which the elderly woman was left bound and gagged in her Pine Hill house... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 3:01pm neoform

Washington Post -- A Haitian warlord who had been living in New York City as a real estate agent was ordered by a U.S. court on Tuesday to pay $19 million to three women who say they were raped and had their breasts slashed by his men... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Japan was arrested Monday, police said, stirring memories of a rape of a Japanese girl by U.S. troops over a decade ago. Police took custody of Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott, 38, of Camp.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 31, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The owner of a Menlo Park jewelry store convicted of hiring a man to kidnap, rape and kill one of his employees because she spurned his romantic advances was sentenced today in a Redwood City courtroom to 39 years to life in prison. Ricardo Zambrano, 3.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:21am neoform

FOX News -- A military jury on Friday found a soldier guilty of rape and murder in the slayings of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family. Jurors deliberated much of Friday evening before convicting Army Pfc. Jesse Spielman, 22, of conspiracy to commit rape, rape.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 10:09pm neoform

CNN -- Before a jury was even seated, a judge declared a mistrial Thursday in a sex-assault case where he had barred the words "rape" and "victim," among others. Judge Jeffre Cheuvront of Lancaster County District Court said protests and other publicity surround.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 12:48pm neoform

CNN -- As prosecutor Mike Nifong pushed forward with the Duke lacrosse rape case, a police investigator expressed concerns that there was a lack of evidence. When he learned that Nifong planned to seek indictments, police investigator Benjamin Himan testified.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 3:45pm neoform

Alter Net -- A Delaware clerk of the peace is happy that his days of performing wedding ceremonies for underage, pregnant brides will soon be over. But a number of other states still have marriage provisions that conflict with their own laws on statutory rape. Ken.. Read More