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Kirsty Brimelow of the Criminal Bar Association said complainants became so fed up that they ‘dropped out of the system’.

In one of the fastest trials ever, a POCSO court in Bihar's Araria district has sentenced a man in just one day's proceedings to life term imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl. The verdict is considered the fastest delivered by any POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court in the country. POCSO Court Special Judge Shashi Kant Rai also imposed a fine

A 20-year-old woman was found raped and murdered at a vacant residential building in Kurla of central Mumbai, police said on Saturday.

Social clubs, also colloquially known as Mavuso in Tshwane, have been linked to the spike in the number of rape cases reported at Temba police station, making the township the capital of sexual offences in country.

Intuitively, this is happening all over where there is no video. not only in civil rights cases but in rape cases, when dna first came, it was sort of a radical thing in race -- in rape cases. now weve had these two big cases with videos, and where is that going to go? but to your major point is, who is responsible for these cases? it is the local d.a.s. and the local d.a.s are elected. once again, elections have consequences and we need to elect people that care about civil rights and are roote...

Altogether 1,326 rape cases were registered across the state in the first seven months of 2021 (from January 1 to July 31).

According to the reports, the accused is out of police custody even after twenty-four hours of the incident.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Francis Adebisi, the Controller, Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) in Lagos State, says inmates involved in defilement of minors and other rape cases will not be considered for presidential pardon. The controller made this known in Lagos. He confirmed that the Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy had started assessment of […]

The accused threatened to make her obscene video viral.

Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem has said that under new anti-rape laws women’s character will not be relevant during investigation