Word: chretien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife to have sexual intercourse with him cannot be convicted of rape. The celebrated Rideout case in Salem, Ore., late last year resulted in the acquittal of Husband John accused of rape by his wife Greta. Attitudes are changing, however. Last week, in another Salem, in Massachusetts, James K. Chretien was convicted of raping his estranged wife Carmelina. He is believed to be the first American ever convicted of wife rape. Chretien was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Morse Jr. to three to five years in Walpole state prison...
...Chretien, a bartender and an exMarine, was being divorced by his wife. After finishing work and a couple of beers one night, according to trial testimony, he burst into the couple's former home and dragged Mrs. Chretien upstairs to their old bedroom. In a similar case that went to trial in the same state more than a century ago, the husband was acquitted. There will undoubtedly be more wife vs. husband rape suits, particularly in Oregon, Nebraska, Delaware and New Jersey, which have all adopted statutes allowing a wife to press rape charges against her husband, even...
...Chretien was charged with two counts of rape and two counts of entering his wife's house last February. He was acquitted on one charge of rape and burglary...
...Chretien his wife and their nine-year-old son had testified at the trial. Chretien said he entered his wife's house because he heard screams, but he denied having intercourse with...