Tag: rape

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kamala Harris on Thursday pledged the nation’s backlog of rape kits needing review would be processed by the end of her first four-year term if elected president. Harris estimated she would invest $1 billion to eliminate the backlog, which she said would cover an estimated 225,000 kits that remain untested. Rape kits are collected when a victim reports an assault and DNA or other physical evidence is collected. State...

Photo by Kyle Johnson on Unsplash I don’t say this lightly or with exaggeration: Fitness saved me from rape. The incident happened, but the aftermath is always the most painful. And for members of the LGBT community, we are less likely to talk about being raped because there’s a stigma that we are always sexual and asking for it. But at the core, it’s not about sex. It’s about consent. The incident happened a week before my 30th birthday in 2015....

Homosexuality is forbidden in some countries. Again, some countries allow it. But, is it always bad? Sometimes, it’s a blessing for someone. That’s what we are going to talk about. Recently, a guy has saved a girl from being raped by raping the guy who wanted to rape the girl. People often look up for “LGBT legal countries” but United States of America is where all the heroes are born. United States of America allowed homosexuality. So, love between same...

A taxi driver from Leeds, England will spend the next 12 years in prison after raping an intoxicated male passenger in a remote area late at night. Mohammed Ilyas is a 44-year-old father of five. According to court documents, his victim had been out drinking at a gay bar with friends when he got into Ilyas’s car expecting to be driven home. Instead, Ilyas drove him to an abandoned farm in a remote part of the country where he “orally raped...

After the disappearance of a longtime friend led to the discovery of his body, two brothers were charged with one count of first-degree murder, first-degree rape, tampering with physical evidence, and unlawful disposal of remains. 16-year-old Ben Eastman from Randle, Washington was reported missing on June 27, according to The Olympian. Police records show that Eastman had contact with longtime friend Benito S. Marquez prior to his disappearance. Cell phone records show that the two were planning to meet up in the...

A former correctional officer from Wisconsin will soon be trading in his prison guard uniform for an orange jumpsuit after been found guilty of repeatedly sexually abusing three male inmates. A jury found 34-year-old Alex Andre Wouts guilty of five counts of second-degree sexual assault yesterday after a dramatic three-day trail. Police first became away of Wouts’ behavior back in December 2015 when they received a tip regarding a sexual assault allegation from inside the Fox Lake Correctional Institution in Fox...

A 21-year-old man with autism was raped in the bathroom stall of the gay-owned Atlanta restaurant No Mas Cantina. The unnamed man was getting ready for his shift at 2pm earlier this week when a man charged into the bathroom and forced himself on the man, pulling off his pants. The victim’s father shared with WSB-TV Atlanta that management didn’t initially call the police after the incident. The father didn’t know what had happened until his son called him...

"He just though he could, for lack of better words, 'straighten him out.'" An Alabama man and his girlfriend have been found guilty of the rape of his 11-year-old son. According to prosecutors, Sean Cole, 29, encouraged Khadeijah Moore, 20, to sexually assault the boy, who is autistic, because he feared he was gay. The youth, who’s name is being kept private, lives with his mother but was visiting Cole in Huntsville over Thanksgiving in 2016. After Cole found his son...

Michael Smalanskas has been having a rough semester. The 22-year-old philosophy and theology major has taken quite a bit of heat from his classmates after putting up an antigay bulletin board with the headline “Marriage: The Way God Intended It” in his dorm hallway. “Traditional marriage: God ordained it. Nature reveals it. Science affirms it,” the bulletin board said. “Marriage should be reinforced. Not redefined!” The billboard also included a quote from Pope Francis that read: “We must affirm the right...

A South African gay man has said he was raped, whipped and covered in human faeces in a homophobic attack. Police have opened a rape investigation following the alleged incident on January 30. Mogamat Yushree Jacobs said that he eventually escaped the Akhbar Rehabilitation Centre in Cape Town after authorities targeted him with vicious attacks – for holding another man’s hand. After 12 years of being addicted to heroin, Jacobs said that eight months at the centre had left him sober and...

“This is malice. This is sadistic." A prisoner in Colorado was repeatedly raped as corrections officers did nothing, according to a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The unnamed inmate, who is gay, was terrorized by his cellmate at ADX Florence and mocked by guards when he revealed the abuse. In August 2014, members of a prison gang called The Boys began threatening the 21-year-old and accusing him of being gay. The gang told him they would attack him...

Actor suffered heavy bruising on his head, eyes and neck. His clothes were torn. The men had threatened to kill him A gay actor and public figure was attacked after a director told fans to rape him. Mahmoud Frites’ Facebook post calling for Adam Lahlou, known as Adouma, went viral in Arabic social media last week. With a picture of Adouma dressed in a kaftan and head scarf on his post, Frites said he had a ‘solution’ to the spreading problem of...

A teen who was beaten and sexually assaulted by former classmates now lies brain dead in a hospital in Malaysia. Eighteen-year-old T. Nhaveen had just finished his shift at a supermarket in Bayan Lepas when he and best friend Previin, 19, went to get a bite at a nearby burger joint. According to police, the two were accosted outside the restaurant by two former schoolmates who began to taunt Nhaveen. (The pair had previously bullied him in school for being effeminate.)...

He was coloring in a park when he says he was attacked by five men A gay disabled man who was allegedly beaten and gang-raped by five men has bravely spoken out about the attack. Steven Greyeyes-Clouse, who has developmental disabilities, is autistic and has cerebral palsy, was sitting in Sacramento Park filling out an adult coloring book on 26 May. He said four men approached him and exposed themselves. Attempting to flee from the group by going to the bathroom, an older...