7 sentences with “rape”

It took the jury only three hours to find Coleman guilty of the rape and murder of Wanda McCoy.

Convicted of attempted rape, he was sentenced to three years in prison, but was paroled after only 20 months.

Teresa testified under oath that Ramey attempted to rape her and threatened to do to her "the same thing he had done to the Slate Creek girl," so the other man had to intervene.

Rape charges were routinely dismissed if the victim "asked for it" for being alone at night or for being "inappropriately" dressed, and there was no legal concept of marital rape.

Everywhere, domestic violence against women (and children) was pervasive: it was taken for granted that the "man of the house" had the right to enforce his will with violence if he deemed it necessary, and the very concept of marital rape was also non-existent.

Nor did the slave woman's role as daughter, wife or mother gain any patriarchal protection. Each of these roles and the relationships they defined were subject to the prerogative of the master, who could freely rape enslaved women, sell their children or separate them from their families.

Some slave owners sought to increase the number of slave children by placing male slaves with fertile female slaves, and slave masters routinely raped their female slaves. The resulting births played an important role in the expansion of slavery in the first half of the 19th century, as many slave children were born as a result of rape.