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The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I find that Ritter’s statement that she was raped by Schmidt to be false.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
As it had not been a rape trial, the verdict did not mean the jury found that she had been raped - only that she believed she had been when she made her allegation.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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
During an attack he was heard to say something about the struggle of men against being raped by ions and flowers.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
