Rape victims 'lucky' if their case gets to court within four years, MPs told
Kirsty Brimelow of the Criminal Bar Association said complainants became so fed up that they ‘dropped out of the system’.
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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 we've 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 rooted in the community, that are working with the police, in community policing, faith leaders, and oth...