rape
24 Oct
The managing director of the Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for raping his wife’s niece.
6 Oct 2023
Patricia, who was displaced by conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, had a hard look in her eye.Similar to thousands of other women and girls, armed men raped the 15-year old when she left her displacement camp, near the city of Goma, in search of food.
4 Oct 2023
Over 6,500 youths under the auspices of World Motivational Speakers (WDMS) have protested against rape, kidnapping and deterioration of education in the North. According to them, the protest was to task security agencies to overcome lingering security challenges in the affected 19 states. Leading the protest, yesterday, in Potiskum, Yobe State, WDMS representative, Aliyu Haruna, disclosed:…
19 Sep 2023
A Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), high court sitting in Kubwa, Abuja, has sentenced the former Chief Pharmacist of the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr. Abubakar Mustapha Danraka for the rape, (sodomy) of a minor. Justice Akanbi-Yusuf, on Monday 18th September 2023, convicted and sentenced Dr. Danraka to life imprisonment after finding him guilty under Section 1…
16 Sep 2023
A famous Brazilian "spiritual healer" accused of sexually abusing female followers has been sentenced to more than 118 years in prison for raping four women, authorities said.
6 Sep 2023
A US man who served seven and a half years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been cleared nearly five decades later thanks to new DNA evidence, authorities said Tuesday.
16 Aug 2023
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Borno State Police Command of the unconstitutional persecution and unlawfully prolonged detention of a Roman Catholic Reverend Father, Peter Chukwuneke Uchebo, over an unproven, unsubstantiated allegation of raping a girl.
16 Jun 2023
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has arraigned a man, Oluwafemi Gbonegun, for defiling an 11-year-old girl.
16 Jun 2023
Japan's age of consent was raised from 13, among the world's lowest, to 16 years old on Friday as lawmakers passed key reforms to sex crime legislation.
13 Jun 2023
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 45-year-old businessman, Emeka Orisakwe, to three life sentences for defiling his three underaged children. The minors were aged eight, eight and six.
29 Apr 2023
Senegal's embattled opposition leader Ousmane Sonko will go on trial for alleged rape on May 16, his accuser's lawyer El Hadji Diouf said Saturday, confirming media reports.