"The problem is that so-called 'historic' rapes are being let off too lightly, " she adds.
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Sentencing for both rapes took place on Wednesday when Mitchell was given a life sentence.
Mr Imiela also protested his innocence of the rapes of which he has already been convicted.
Barbadian Derick Crawford, 47, was charged with the rapes, but the case was dismissed this month.
Barbadian Derick Crawford, 47, was charged with the rapes, but the case was dismissed last month.
Only four months into the calendar year there have been 274 rapes in Detroit, Mich.
He disclosed that matches had been made in 96 murder investigations, 50 attempted murders and 116 rapes.
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Far more threatening are events in Lazio, the region around Rome, which has seen a string of rapes.
Correspondents say the rapes are a blow to Mexico's attempts to boost its reputation as a tourist destination.
Sometimes the burglaries and rapes stopped - police still have no idea why.
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Post traumatic stress disorder can strike after military combat, rapes or serious accidents.
Some 7, 591 of these were subsequently matched with samples from crime scenes, including those from 88 murders and 116 rapes.
That's certainly the opinion of Jessica Bleckley, a young private whose accusations sparked the investigation of rapes at Aberdeen.
Mamdooh al-Munir, a local spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood said that the lynching followed a spate of rapes in the area.
Ontario police arrested Homolka and her husband in 1993 in the rapes and murders of three Ontario girls, including her own sister.
The Home Office estimates up to 95% of rapes are never reported and only 6.5% result in a guilty plea or verdict.
For a metro area whose population is just over that number at 182, 000, a total of 120 rapes occurred over 12 months.
It may take some time before these changes affect the ways rapes are reported, but it is a step in the right direction.
Brian Witty, 41, previously a Territorial Army Parachute Regiment captain was convicted of three rapes and a sexual assault, at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court.
But it is now matching 3, 000 offences a month including last year several hundred murders, and thousands of rapes and other violent offences.
Juveniles committed nine percent of murders, 20 percent of robberies, 15 percent of rapes, and 13 percent of aggravated assaults, according to the report.
According to the Ministry of Justice, between April 2004 and March 2005, 5.7% of rapes recorded in England and Wales resulted in a conviction.
Women's rights activist Lisa Vetten says in the province of Gauteng, where Johannesburg is located, one in every five rapes is a gang rape.
And Harriet Harman, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham, told BBC London she could no longer call on women to report rapes to the Sapphire unit.
The report, currently at its half-way stage, is likely to recommend the setting up of more self-referral centres, where women can report rapes without initial police involvement.
Guidance on how the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) should investigate and prosecute alleged rapes will be published by the National Police Improvement Agency in June.
One, in 1996, estimated that 5% of rapes of victims of reproductive age led to pregnancy, based on repeated phone surveys of the same group of women.
According to numbers from the FBI Uniform Crime Report, more than 85 rapes are committed annually per 100, 000 citizens, which makes Anchorage No. 2 on our list.
Other crimes like rapes, robberies, assaults and burglaries were up slightly in the city, while grand larceny went up by 9%, due to increased thefts of electronic devices.
Last month, the Swiss government issued a travel notice for India that included a warning about "increasing numbers of rapes and other sexual offenses" in the South Asian nation.
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