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Laws regarding rape
Laws regarding rape define the crime through force-based or consent-based models, including yes-means-yes and no-means-no variants. Key reforms include the Istanbul Convention, France's 2025 consent law, and the abolition of the marital rape exemption.
Legality of child pornography
Legality of child pornography, now often called child sexual abuse material (CSAM): criminalized in most jurisdictions under the 2000 UN Optional Protocol (178 parties) and national statutes in the US, UK, Canada, Germany and the EU, with current reforms on AI-generated and self-generated images.
List of sexual abuses perpetrated by groups
Survey of sexual abuses perpetrated by organized groups: state forces, armed groups, gangs, and peacekeepers. Covers the UN definition of conflict-related sexual violence, documented cases in Sudan, Ukraine, CAR, Israel and Gaza, Mali, and Haiti, organizational patterns, and accountability.
Lust murder
Lust murder (Lustmord; erotophonophilia) is a subcategory of sexual homicide in which sadistic killing itself produces sexual gratification, distinguished by mutilation, FBI offender typologies, and Krafft-Ebing's 1886 origins.
Marital rape
Marital rape: non-consensual sex by a spouse, long exempt from rape law under Hale's 1736 implied-consent doctrine. Abolished in the UK (R v R, 1991) and US (first conviction 1979), but retained in India's BNS 2023 and many other countries.
Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Kay Letourneau (born Mary Katherine Schmitz, 1962-2020), American teacher convicted of second-degree child rape of 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau in 1997; later married him in 2005 after prison; died of colon cancer.
Matthew Falder
Matthew Falder, British geophysicist and Cambridge graduate, blackmailed 46 victims online as "Liz" and "666devil"; admitted 137 offences, jailed 32 years in 2018, reduced to 25 on appeal.
Megan's Law
Megan's Law: US sex offender registration and community notification laws named for Megan Kanka, murdered in New Jersey in 1994. New Jersey enacted it in 1994; a 1996 federal law amended the Wetterling Act; SORNA (2006) later replaced it.
Miryang gang rape
The Miryang gang rape (밀양 집단 성폭행 사건) was a 2004 case in which 44 male high school students from Miryang, South Korea, sexually assaulted a Ulsan middle school girl over a year; it became a national scandal over police mistreatment of victims, an NHRC inquiry, and a 2008 Supreme Court state compensation ruling.
Moe incest case
The Moe incest case is an Australian criminal case from Moe, Victoria, in which a man was sentenced in 2010 to over 22 years in prison for decades of incest against his daughter.
Mr Cruel
Mr Cruel is an unidentified man who attacked girls in Melbourne homes in the late 1980s and is the chief suspect in Karmein Chan's 1991 murder.
Online predator
Online predator: an adult who uses chat, social media, and messaging to groom children for sexual exploitation, also called online grooming or cybergrooming; prevalence 8-19%, staged manipulative tactics, ML detection, and grooming-specific criminal laws.
Online Rape Academy (CNN investigation)
Online Rape Academy: name for the ecosystem exposed in CNN's 26 March 2026 As Equals investigation ("Exposing a global 'online rape academy'"), covering Telegram group Zzz, Motherless.com, and the misreported 62 million visits figure.
Operation Spanner
Operation Spanner: 1987 UK Metropolitan Police investigation into gay consensual sadomasochism, leading to the Spanner trials, R v Brown, and Laskey v UK.
Operation Yewtree
Operation Yewtree was a Metropolitan Police investigation into historical sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile and others, launched in October 2012 after an ITV documentary aired abuse allegations.
Pandora Gate
Pandora Gate is the 2023 Polish influencer scandal revealed by Sylwester Wardęga over alleged abuse of minors, leading to the 2026 UK extradition of YouTuber Stuu; also a fictional wormhole device in Eclipse Phase.
Pelicot rape case
Pelicot rape case (Mazan case): 2024 Avignon trial in which Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-defendants were convicted of drugging and raping Gisèle Pelicot; it prompted France's 2025 consent-based rape law.
Penn State child sex abuse scandal
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal centers on Jerry Sandusky, convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of abusing boys via The Second Mile charity, triggering the Freeh Report, NCAA sanctions, $109M settlements, and ongoing appeals.
People v. Turner
People v. Turner (Santa Clara County, 2016) is the Brock Allen Turner sexual assault prosecution: jury conviction on three felony counts, Judge Persky's six-month sentence, recalled judge, changed California law, appeal affirmed 2018.
Peter Scully
Peter Gerard Scully is an Australian sex offender serving life imprisonment in the Philippines for trafficking and raping children, with a further 129 years added in 2022.
Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell
Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, taken 10 March 2001 at Maxwell's London home by Jeffrey Epstein, published 2011; central evidence in Giuffre's allegations, disputed, later apparently confirmed by a Maxwell email.
Prison rape
Prison rape is sexual violence against incarcerated people by inmates or staff. Key facts: U.S. PREA of 2003, NIS-4 2023-24 rate 4.1%, pooled meta-analytic prevalence 12.4%, 5% grant penalty.
Properties of Jeffrey Epstein
Properties of Jeffrey Epstein: his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach mansion, Zorro Ranch, Little St. James and Great St. James islands, and Paris apartment; all sold by his estate after 2019, funding victim compensation and the $105 million USVI settlement.
Rape
Rape is a crime in which a person is subjected to a sexual act without their consent, whether through physical force, threats, incapacitation, or coercion.
Rape by deception
Rape by deception, also called rape by fraud or sex by deception, is sex obtained through lies or non-disclosure that vitiates consent. Covers fraud in factum versus inducement, Lawrance, CPS guidance, US, Canadian, Israeli, and Indian law, and stealthing.
Rape by gender
Rape by gender covers how rape law and statistics treat victims and perpetrators by gender: gender-specific versus gender-neutral statutes, consent-based reforms, CDC NISVS rape and made-to-penetrate definitions, and prevalence and reporting differences for women and men.
Rape in India
Rape in India is a criminal offense defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, formerly IPC Section 375; police recorded 31,516 cases in 2022, with a 27.4% conviction rate.
Rape in Islamic law
Rape in Islamic law (ikrah ala al-zina) is coercive intercourse treated under zina doctrine. Key facts: hadd punishments, four-witness rule, Pakistan's 1979 Hudood Ordinance, 2006 Protection of Women Act, 2021 reforms.
Rape in Japan
Rape in Japan, now non-consensual sexual intercourse (不同意性交等), is a Penal Code offense redefined by 2017 and 2023 reforms; recognized cases rose from 1,655 in 2022 to 3,936 in 2024.
Rape in Pakistan
Rape in Pakistan is criminalized under Pakistan Penal Code Sections 375 and 376, reshaped by the 1979 Zina Ordinance, the 2006 Protection of Women Act, and 2016 and 2021 amendments, with special courts and a sex offenders register but under 3 percent conviction.