raped

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She waived her legal right to anonymity in her own trial, saying: "I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too."

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024

Former President Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

The French legalized abortion in 1975 after the high-profile case of a 16-year-old girl, Marie-Claire Chevalier, who was raped by a classmate and underwent an illegal abortion.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

In America or Australia there are no hospitals where lie thousands of girls too young to become mothers who have been raped.

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)