Tag Archives: rape

Aminu Hayatu Tafida aka Jaffa,  the son of a Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Tambuwal has been remanded in prison for allegedly raping a minor.   Jaffa who was arraigned before a Sokoto magistrate court on Monday October 5, pleaded not guilty to the charge.   While he was remanded in the Sokoto ...

The Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda has sentenced a 22-year-old man to 25 years’ imprisonment for rape and attempting to rape five women between 2015 and 2018. According to National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Anelisa Ngcakani, the man, Thulani Lamani, was 17 years old when he committed his first two rapes and ...

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of rape, murder, and arson in connection with the deaths of a female doctor and her teenage daughter.   The men, from Burnley, aged 51 and 56,, were arrested on Sunday evening on suspicion of two counts of murder, two counts of rape ...

The family members of a Dalit girl in India who died after she was gang raped have accused the authorities of forcefully cremating her body in the middle of the night without their consent. The 19-year-old from a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district, 200km (124 miles) from the Indian ...

After a teenager’s death in an alleged attack by four men sparked protests across India, state police announced Thursday that she had not been raped. The suspects in the case remain in custody and still face murder charges. The 19-year-old woman died on Tuesday, two weeks after she was allegedly attacked by ...

 A teenage woman from India’s lowest caste died in hospital on Tuesday, weeks after four high-caste men allegedly raped her. Protests have erupted in New Delhi over the death of a low-caste teenager allegedly raped by four upper-caste men. Every 15 minutes, someone is raped in India on average, according to ...

A woman from India’s marginalized Dalit community has died after being gang-raped, police said Thursday, days after the death of a teenager from the same low-caste group at the hands of a group of high-caste men sparked outrage. The 22-year-old, a member of India’s “untouchable” Dalit community, was allegedly raped by ...

A 20-year-old woman has died two weeks after a horrific gang-rape by four men that left her paralysed with a broken spine in India.   The men reportedly attacked the woman near her home in the Hathras region, around 60 miles from Delhi, on September 14. The victim had been ...

Student accused of rape texted alleged victim to say “I have to apologise for Wednesday” A university student accused of raping a woman as she slept later messaged her saying “I have to apologise for Wednesday”, a court heard. Nicholas Beanland, 24, claims he never had sexual contact with the ...

Brit Teens and friend boldly accused 8 men in Italy for rape. The two 15 years were drugged. The two 15-year-olds were allegedly drugged and then attacked in a horror incident lasting 15 minutes by a group who had ‘gatecrashed’ a party in Pisticci, southern Italy The two 15-year-olds, who ...