gang rape
noun
an act or instance of gang-raping someone.
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gang rape
1 Americannoun
gang-rape
2
American
[gang-rayp]
/ ˈgæŋˌreɪp /
verb (used with object)
gang-raped,
gang-raping
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On Thursday Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that she was appointing Letitia James as a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Now in its tenth year, it was started in response to the 2012 Delhi gang rape, to improve coverage of women's stories in the media.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022
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
“Delhi Crime,” a fictionalized retelling of a brutal gang rape on Netflix, won an Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2020 — the first for an Indian show.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 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
"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
It probed into the magazine’s handling of the discredited University of Virginia fraternity gang-rape story it published last year.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 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
Priya's Shakti, inspired by Hindu mythological tales, tells the story of Priya, a young woman and gang-rape survivor, and Goddess Parvati as they fight against gender crimes in India.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2014
It may come as a surprise to learn that Ms. Diallo did not, in fact, tell the gang-rape lie on her asylum application.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2011
Protesters gathered outside the Cypriot high commission before marching through London chanting “we believe her”, on the eve of the sentencing of a 19-year-old woman convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2020
The foreign secretary has urged Cyprus to "do the right thing" in the case of a British teenager convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2020
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
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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