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Carnivals Against Sexual Violence 54 and 55

By Corey Rayburnyung

I'm behind in reporting the Carnivals at abyss2hope. This is the legal section from number 54:In "In a rape, the rapists are on trial, not the raped" posted at churumuri, we get a discussion of the ruling by the Supreme Court of India which overturned a lower court ruling that rape wasn't a crime if the woman raped appeared to be promiscuous in her sexual behaviour. In New Washington State Law Allows Previous Victims To Testify posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open, I discuss a new law which allows rape victims whose own cases cannot be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations to testify in another victim's case when that testimony shows a pattern of violence. In Rape as a Crime Against Persons posted at dia a la noche, we get a discussion of the change in Phillipine law in 1997 which changed rape from a crime against chastity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).