rape

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Trials are about discovering the truth, and a jury should know if a defendant has been accused of rape or sexual assault in the past.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026

They believed her, and Weinstein was convicted of rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026

Mr. Swalwell has denied the accusations of rape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Those media outlets reported that the staff member accusing Swalwell of rape was 21 when she began working for him in 2019 in his Castro Valley district office.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall