gang rape
noun
an act or instance of gang-raping someone.
gang rape
1 Americannoun
gang-rape
2
American
[gang-rayp]
/ ˈgæŋˌreɪp /
verb (used with object)
gang-raped,
gang-raping
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Five Israeli men were acquitted of all charges on Monday at a Cyprus court over the alleged gang rape of a 20-year-old British woman.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine apologized and officially retracted its discredited article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
McCorvey had testified under oath in the Roe case that she had become pregnant by gang rape, but in 1987, she told a Dallas newspaper columnist she had lied.
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
Who can forget the fabulist at the University of Virginia who duped Rolling Stone magazine with a bogus story of gang rape at a fraternity.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2018
Rolling Stone’s reputation was tarnished after it published an article in November 2014 about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity that turned out to have factual errors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2017
"The remission of the sentence of convicts of a gruesome crime like gang-rape and murder is morally and ethically improper," said senior lawyer Anand Yagnik.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2022
Accusations by Ms. Ford and Ms. Ramirez have yet to be corroborated, while the account by Julie Swetnick of gang-rape parties while he was in high school have been met with widespread skepticism.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2018
But he has said that its publication has been moved up in the wake of Rolling Stone’s botched and retracted article about an alleged fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
On Friday, just two days before Sorkin’s campus-rape episode aired, Rolling Stone magazine issued a statement backing away from its bombshell UVA gang-rape story, saying that its “trust in Jackie was misplaced.”
From MSNBC ● Dec. 9, 2014
Last week, Mr Tharoor, the junior education minister, called on the authorities to reveal the name of the gang-rape victim so that the new anti-rape law could be named after her.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2013
The UK is "seriously concerned about the fair trial guarantees" in the case of a British woman convicted of lying about being gang-raped by 12 Israelis in Cyprus, the government said.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2019
A lawyer for a 19-year-old British woman arrested for falsely claiming a dozen Israeli teens gang-raped her in Cyprus has suggested his client is a victim of a “more serious” crime.
From Fox News ● Jul. 31, 2019
After first claiming she had been gang-raped, thinking that might get her a legal abortion, and seeking an illegal one as well, she visited the Dallas lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2017
Dean Nicole Eramo, who claims she was unfairly depicted as the “chief villain” in the now discredited article about a woman nicknamed “Jackie” who claimed she was gang-raped at a fraternity.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2015
The Manhattan District Attorney's office appeared to be close to dropping charges after revealing that Diallo, a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea, had fabricated a story about being gang-raped in her application for U.S. asylum.
From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2011
A British woman has been found guilty of falsely accusing 12 Israeli men of gang-raping her while she was on holiday in Cyprus.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019
Mr. Beldock and Ms. Dippold were lawyers in the civil case of the Central Park Five, whose convictions of gang-raping a jogger were overturned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
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