Sex Crime

Man accused of rape and murder that shocked South Africa released

Reuters | Wednesday May 22, 2013

South African prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against one of the two men charged with raping, mutilating and killing a teenage girl in a crime that outraged a country hardened by some of the world's highest rates of sexual violence.

Queens Park Rangers striker Loic Remy arrested on suspicion of rape

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 15, 2013

Remy is being held by Scotland Yard's sex crime squad along with two other men after a 34-year-old woman alleged three men raped her on May 6 in west London.

New India sex crime laws not tough enough: UN rapportuer

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 1, 2013

The UN Special Rapporteur quoted one person on her trip as describing violence against women as spanning the "life cycle from womb to the tomb".

When Jeetendra boosted John Abraham's confidence

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday May 1, 2013

John Abraham's next is crime thriller Shootout At Wadala, a genre not so popular among women. But yesteryear actor Jeetendra feels it will appeal to the fairer sex and his encouraging words have boosted the actor's confidence.

Sex crimes related to watching pornography?

Written by Rashmi Rajput | Wednesday April 24, 2013

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Sunny Leone, John Abraham on porn debate

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday April 24, 2013

Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny became one of the most searched names on the Internet in India when she arrived in 2011 to appear in a reality TV series. Since then, she's starred in erotic thriller Jism 2 and features in a raunchy item number called '...

Sex crimes: are children becoming easy targets?

Written by Saurabh Gupta | Sunday April 21, 2013

Are children becoming easy targets for sexual predators in this country? The events of the last week certainly seem to suggest so. A five-year-old girl raped in the national capital, a six-year-old girl raped in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, a seven-year...

After gang-rape, India struggles to put words into action

Agence France-Presse | Monday April 8, 2013

A hundred days after India mourned the death of the medical student who was gang-raped and vowed to fight sex crimes, the torn clothes and tears of another woman bear testimony to a tide of violence that refuses to ebb.

The puzzle of housing sex offenders

Michael Schwirtz, The New York Times | Tuesday February 5, 2013

Two trailers in this wealthy beach town stand as testament to an increasingly intractable problem for localities across the country: where to let sex offenders live after prison.

Report on tougher laws on rape, crime against women submitted to the government

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday January 23, 2013

A government commission tasked with looking at India's sex crime laws after the gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus has submitted its report, which is expected to recommend tougher sentences.

Sex is a major reason military commanders are fired

Associated Press | Monday January 21, 2013

Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, fired from his command in Afghanistan last May and now facing a court-martial on charges of sodomy, adultery and pornography and more, is just one in a long line of commanders whose careers were ended because of po...

Jimmy Savile report details child sex abuse cases above 200

Associated Press | Friday January 11, 2013

British police say the late entertainer Jimmy Savile committed more than 200 sex crimes over more than half a century, with most victims being children and teens who were assaulted across the length and breadth of Britain, from TV studios to hospital...

Jimmy Savile is suspect in 199 crimes

Associated Press | Wednesday December 12, 2012

British police investigating sex abuse allegations against the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile say that they have recorded 199 crimes in which Savile is a suspect.

South Korea's porn fight 'like shoveling in a blizzard'

Associated Press | Monday December 10, 2012

Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame - only a righteous sense of mission.

Non-vegetarians lie, cheat, commit sex crimes: school textbook

Reported by Sunetra Choudhury; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Saturday November 17, 2012

After an NDTV story which showed a Class 6 textbook that says meat-eaters cheat, lie and commit sex crimes, the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) has said that school books used across the country are not monitored for content.