In 1975, a rape victims’ advocate named Linda Reinshagen shared a story with a reporter from the Chicago Tribune. A man on the South Side had pulled a woman into an alley where he raped and badly beat ...

Corroborating findings of the National Sexual Violence Research Center (1918), the Center for Disease Control (2022) reports that sexual violence is common: Over half of women and almost one in three ...

Editor’s note: This story includes graphic details of sexual atrocities. An investigation by The Times of Israel raises questions about whether forensic evidence of rape was collected from victims of ...

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A new law designed to increase protections for victims of sexual assault in New York by redefining rape in the state’s penal code is set to take effect in September. The Rape is Rape Act, which was ...