Rape
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Matthew Maldonado, Nicholas Schultz accused in New Year's Eve rape
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Matthew Maldonado, 26, and Nicholas Schultz, 21, are accused of repeatedly raping a 20-year-old Fairfax woman as she fell in and out of consciousness in the parking garage of St. Matthews Cathedral on New Year's Eve.
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Steubenville website sorts fact from fiction in rape case
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Authorities investigating rape accusations against two high school football players in eastern Ohio have launched a website intended to sort fact from fiction as interest in the case balloons.
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Shane Miller charged for raping, stabbing woman in Glen Burnie
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Police say Shane Miller, 37, held a woman against her will and then stabbed and raped her in his apartment on Secluded Post Circle.
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Andres Reyes-Grenados charged with rape
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Police say Andres Avelino Reyes-Granados started raping the girls, ages 7 and 9, at a Woodbridge home in September.
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Group of men suspected in D.C. robberies, rapes
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D.C. police are searching for a group suspected in crimes ranging from robbery to rape.
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Navy sailors allegedly attack, rape woman in Japan
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According to Japanese media, the sailors had been drinking before they attacked the woman, in her 20s, who was on her way home before dawn.
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Aaron Thomas to plead guilty in East Coast Rapist case
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Aaron Thomas of New Haven, Conn. was arrested in Connecticut in March 2011 after a multi-state law enforcement effort to catch a man believed responsible for rapes and other attacks on 17 women since 1997 in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
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Demarco Myles, new details in Howard University rape
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A teen charged in connection with a sexual assault at Howard University is a ward of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services. That's according to multiple sources at the agency obtained by The Washington Times.
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SE neighborhood on edge after alleged sexual assault
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The search is on for a man who used some kind of chemical to knock a woman out so he could sexually assault her.
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Montrelle Bowie charged in Frederick rape, kidnapping
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Montrelle Bowie, 23, has been arrested and is facing several charges, including kidnapping and raping a woman in Frederick.
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Kenneth Staton charged for attempted rape in Arlington
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Police say just before 11 p.m. an officer walking in the Nauck community heard screams for help in a wooded area.
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Kirk Douglas Yancey, 34, arrested for having sex with minor
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Charles County authorities say that 34-year-old Kirk Douglas Yancey posed as a 17-year-old teenager, then met up with a 14-year-old girl he met online and had sex wit her. He's now facing multiple sexual offenses.
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'Skin tax' in strip clubs to raise funds for rape centers
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Illinois has passed a “skin tax” for strip clubs in an effort to raise funds for rape crisis centers in the state.
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Congressman Todd Akin's rape comments spark controversy
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Congressman Todd Akin says he was wrong in claiming that women's bodies are able to prevent pregnancies in "a legitimate rape" situation and that conception is rare in such cases.
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Bruce Sewell Kamer arrested for allegedly raping, assaulting girlfriend
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Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly tied his girlfriend to a bed and repeatedly raped and sodomized her while beating her with a belt and a wire hanger in Spotsylvania County.
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Gerald Smith pleads guilty to Montgomery County cold case rapes
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A man in prison in California for several rapes has pleaded guilty to three unsolved rapes in Maryland from 1981, 1982 and 1986, extending an already long sentence.
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Alex Yamil Velasquez-Rubio charged with rape
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Alex Yamil Velasquez-Rubio, 25, of Woodbridge was charged with the rape of a 22 year old woman from Great Falls.
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Kirk Odom exonerated of guilt in 1981 sexual assault
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In 1981, Kirk Odom was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman while she slept in her D.C. home. However, decades later, DNA evidence has proved that he didn't commit the crime.
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