Statutory Rape

Rape Charge Dropped After 14-Year-Old Accuser Commits Suicide

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

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HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a...

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South African Girls Swap Sex For Rides To School

GlobalPost | Iva Skoch | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- In some of the roughest neighborhoods of Cape Town, as minivan taxis line up to pick up kids and take them to school in the...

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South African Girl, 15, Charged With Statutory Rape After Confessing Sex Act Was Consensual

Posted 05.25.2011

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A 15-year-old South African girl who initially claimed she was gang-raped is now being charged with statutory rape after agreeing the sex was consensu...

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Moses Virgil Campbell Jr Used iPhone App To Meet, Have Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl: POLICE

Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Moses Virgil Campbell Jr., 44, of Virginia, allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl he met through a social networking iPhone app, "iDate-Personals ...

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Polanski Lawyer Says Client Will Face Only One Charge if He Returns to LA

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Unlawful Sexual Intercourse, Statutory Rape, Rape, Samantha Geimer, Polanski Case, Polanski, Roman Polanski, Entertainment News
Jeff Norman

Just because a lot of pathetic people need to dwell on the director's supposed indecency to make themselves feel decent in comparison, doesn't mean that normal evidentiary standards should be abandoned in the Polanski matter.

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Polanski, My Daughter and Me: A Very Short Story

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Krassner

In 1977, I got a magazine assignment to cover the trial of Roman Polanski. My daughter Holly, who came with me, was then thirteen--the same age as the girl Polanski was accused of seducing.

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Roman Polanski, And The Making Of A Legend

Megan Carpentier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megan Carpentier

Polanski, the master story-teller, has been refining his story for 30 years, weaving his little lies one by one into a cloak intended to shield him from both moral judgment and the legal system.

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Poland and Polanski: Chemical Castration in the News

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shirin Sadeghi

Changing people's attitudes about the rich and famous, or their ingrained gender biases, is a slow process, but that's where laws come in handy: some problems do have solutions.

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If Men Got Pregnant, Would Abortion Be Legal?

Glenn Sacks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safe Haven Laws, Supreme Court, Abortion, Statutory Rape, Peggy Drexler, Sonia Sotomayor, If Men Got Pregnant, Gerardo Flores, Sotomayor, Pro-Choice, Erica Basoria, Politics News
Glenn Sacks

A million and a half American women legally walk away from motherhood every year. By contrast, courts forbid men to avoid responsibility even the most extreme circumstances.

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Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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