Rapes

An outside panel commissioned by the agency found that it to be too narrow a definition rapes don't necessarily have to be "forcible," against a female, etc and women's rights advocates say it results in the under-reporting of thousands of sexual assaults each year . ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

"By putting the word "rapes" between single inverted commas, you seem to be saying that in your opinion it isn't rape if a woman is wearing lycra." ❋ Tracy McVeigh (2011)

As for what should happen to the people who committed these acts, the temptation to go after the people who held the drill, fired the guns, or threatened the rapes is powerful since they were the ones who actually were there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Regardless, the proportion of child rapes is staggeringly high and emphasizes the need for greater protection of Khmer children. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fletcher A. Worrell has been charged with nine rapes from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. ❋ Dan Morse (2010)

On abortion, O'Donnell jumps in to say that she was against abortion but that the number of abortions following rapes is tiny. ❋ Richard Adams (2010)

Trial opens for 3 men accused in rapes of USD students ❋ Unknown (2008)

The number of unreported rapes is believed to be much larger. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"By putting the word "rapes" between single inverted commas, you seem to be saying that in your opinion it isn't rape if a woman is wearing lycra. ❋ Tracy McVeigh (2011)

I hope it doesn't come across as tragically uninformed or insensitive when I say that the rapes are the least of the crimes committed in this horrible, horrible situation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It just appears to me that some events are being called rapes that ought not to be. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They should never have been called rapes in the first place; for example, a woman phones the station and yells rape. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I think I have had this discussion before, and it turns out that the latter cases are the ones that are referred to as the rapes that “are a power thing.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

Desdemona calls the rapes "obscene" but embraces Othello nonetheless. ❋ By ELAINE SCIOLINO (2011)