Ohio kidnapping case: Ariel Castro pleads not guilty
Associated Press | Wednesday June 12, 2013
A Cleveland man has pleaded not guilty to holding three women captive in his home for a decade and raping them.
Protests on the streets of Deoghar after rape, murder of two teens
Ketki Angre, Haribans Sharma | Wednesday June 5, 2013
For a week now, residents in Jharkhand's Deogarh town have been out on the streets, blocking roads and highways, protesting the brutal rape and murder of two young teenagers. On May 25, two class 8 students, aged 13, daughters of policemen, were on t...
17-year-old girl allegedly gang-raped by neighbours in Delhi
Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday May 21, 2013
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped in Delhi by three people, including two neighbours, after giving her sedatives, police said.
13-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped and raped in Meerut
Press Trust of India | Sunday May 19, 2013
A 13-year old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by her neighbour at the Lisari Gate area in Meerut, police said.
Ohio kidnappings: Accused plans to plead not guilty, says lawyer
Reuters | Wednesday May 15, 2013
The man charged with holding three women captive and raping them during a decade in his Cleveland home plans to plead not guilty to criminal charges, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday.
Brothers of Cleveland kidnap suspect hope he 'rots in jail'
Reuters | Tuesday May 14, 2013
Two brothers of a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of holding three women hostage in his house for a decade described Ariel Castro as a "monster" and said they hope he "rots in jail" if convicted of kidnapping and raping the women.
Ohio kidnapping: Security fence erected around house
Associated Press | Monday May 13, 2013
An imposing, 10-foot (3.05-meter) privacy fence has been erected around the home of an Ohio rape and kidnapping suspect charged with holding three women captive for about a decade.
Delhi rape: Five-year-old girl discharged from hospital
Press Trust of India | Friday May 10, 2013
The five-year-old girl, who was abducted, brutalised and raped allegedly by two men in east Delhi, was discharged from hospital after 23 days of treatment.
Ohio abduction: victims switched on 'auto-pilot' to survive
Agence France-Presse | Friday May 10, 2013
To survive a 10-year ordeal of beatings and rapes at the hands of the Ohio kidnapper, his three victims may have shut down mentally on a form of "auto-pilot" to dull the trauma, psychologists say.
Cleveland kidnappings: Citing forced miscarriages, prosecutor to seek murder charges against accused
Reuters | Friday May 10, 2013
An Ohio prosecutor said on Thursday he will seek aggravated murder charges, which could carry the death penalty, against a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of kidnapping and raping three women during a decade of captivity in his house.
Ohio kidnapping: Suspect arraigned on rape, kidnap charges, bail set at $8 million
Associated Press | Thursday May 9, 2013
A man suspected of raping and kidnapping three women who had been missing for about a decade and were found alive at his home made his first court appearance Thursday and was ordered held on $8 million bond.
Suspect in Ohio kidnappings due in court on Thursday
Associated Press | Thursday May 9, 2013
Three women found alive after a decade in captivity endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.
US man charged with rape, kidnapping in Cleveland horror
Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 9, 2013
US prosecutors charged a 52-year-old ex-bus driver Wednesday with the kidnap and rape of three young women imprisoned at his Cleveland home in a nightmare that lasted more than a decade.
Cleveland kidnapping victims endured decade of isolation, rape, beatings
Reuters | Thursday May 9, 2013
Three young women newly freed from a decade-long kidnapping ordeal in Cleveland endured their captivity in the dungeon-like confines of a squalid house, where they were raped, starved, beaten and kept in chains by the man who abducted them, authoriti...
Hang him publicly, says mother of 4-year-old who died from rape injuries
Edited by Janaki Fernandes (with inputs from agencies) | Tuesday April 30, 2013
The body of the four-year-old who died in a Nagpur hospital nine days after she was brought there in an air ambulance is being taken back to her village in Madhya Pradesh. The child had been kidnapped and raped near her house on April 17; her pare...
