India Nurse Dies 42 Years After Rape
Aruna Shanbaug lay in a near vegetative state for 42 years in a cubicle in Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, where she had worked as a nurse and where she was sexually assaulted in 1973. Columnist Bachi Karkaria pieces together her story. Unaware of her unwanted fame, the 67-year-old became India’s metaphor for the […]
‘Libya is Full of Cruelty’ – Amnesty Report
Refugees and migrants in Libya face rape, torture and abduction by traffickers and smugglers, as well as systematic exploitation by their employers, religious persecution and other abuses by armed groups and criminal gangs, said Amnesty International in a new report. The 30-page report, ‘Libya is full of cruelty’: Stories of abduction, sexual violence and abuse […]
Girls raped, boys abducted, towns torched: South Sudan
Gunmen in South Sudan have raped girls, seized boys to become soldiers and torched towns in some of the heaviest fighting seen in the 17-month-long civil war, the United Nations has said. Over 300,000 civilians have been left without “life-saving aid” in the northern battleground state of Unity, after the UN and aid agencies pulled […]
Pastor ‘rapes’ 14-year-old nephew
A FOURTEEN-year-old Okahao boy was allegedly raped by his 26-year-old uncle, who is a graduate of theology. Police spokesperson Inspector Slogan Matheus yesterday said the suspect had just returned from abroad where he was studying theology. Matheus told the media during a press briefing in Windhoek that the teenager was raped after he had taken […]
Female Rapists How They Harvested My Sperm: Revealed
A MAN who was raped at gunpoint by three well-dressed South African women intent on harvesting his sperm Monday described the ‘disbelief, shock and pain’ at falling victim to such a bizarre attack. The 33-year-old from Zimbabwe, who is now too scared to leave his home, sobbed as he told of the sustained attack in […]
Three women kidnap man, rape him and steal his semen in S.Africa
Women asked for directions then bundled him into a black BMW in kidnap Made him drink ‘unknown substance’ to get aroused after fondling failed Collected semen in a plastic bag and stored it in cooler box before escape Part of a trend of women kidnapping and raping men using same method South African police have […]
A man brags about raping a passed out female contestant on Big Brother
Pay TV-broadcaster M-Net remained silent on Wednesday as a growing rape scandal swirled around its tawdry Big Brother Mzansi reality show in which a male contestant bragged that he “dipped” a passed out female housemate. Production company Endemol South Africa booted the male contestant and also removed the female housemate “for her well-being” from the […]
Three men given 15-year jail terms for gang-raping a teenage girl in Kenya
Three men convicted of gang-raping a teenage girl in Kenya and dumping her in a pit latrine have each received 15-year jail terms. Reports that the rapists were ordered by police to cut grass as a punishment caused global outrage last year. The Kenyan police deny the claims. Nearly two million people signed a petition […]
A schoolboy in Kenya rescues a little girl from being rapped
The schoolboy watched as a man tried to remove the nappy of a little girl he was dragging along a Nairobi riverbank, suspecting that he was going to rape her.Having been trained to defend girls against sexual assault, the boy called other young men to help him confront the man and rescue the child. “It […]
Australian ex tennis player Bob Hewitt found guilty of raping & assaulting young girls in South Africa
Australian-born former tennis Grand Slam champion Bob Hewitt was found guilty Monday in South Africa of raping and assaulting young girls whom he was coaching in the early 1980s. Hewitt, 75, had pleaded not guilty to the two charges of rape and one of indecent assault, which were brought against him by three women in […]
