Word: rapist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definition of rape cannot be so nebulous as to give "victims" virtually unlimited authority to cry "rape" after the fact when they didn't at least verbally object at the time (expect, of course, in those cases where the victim is physically prevented from speaking by the rapist, where the threat of violence is imminent of where the victim is incapable of exercising his or her vocal chords due to some medical condition like laryngeal cancer or laryngitis...
Texas District Judge Michael McSpadden has a solution for rapists: castrate them. Steven Allen Butler, an accused rapist, had an offer for Judge McSpadden: Castrate me. Last winter, while he was on probation for molesting a seven-year-old girl, Butler was arrested for the rape of a 13-year-old. In October, after McSpadden aired his views on castration in the Houston Post, Butler's attorney proposed a deal. Instead of undergoing a trial in which he faced a plea-bargained 35-year prison sentence, Butler agreed to be surgically castrated if he could go free at once...
...police gain more evidence that the girl's parents put themselves at odds with the state. After arranging to travel to London for an abortion, the parents asked police whether a tissue sample from the fetus could be used as a "genetic fingerprint" that would positively identify the rapist. The inquiry made its way to Attorney General Harry Whelehan, who judged himself duty-bound to stop the family from breaking Irish...
...audience chuckles through a variant of the Jack Tripper Misunderstanding Theme when Vinny first arrives at the jail. Stan assumes this newcomer is just another prison rapist--not an attorney with the power to prevent a trip to the electric chair--and consequently lambastes him. Stan is shocked when Vinny responds to his unappreciative welcome with such comments as: "I mean, it's your ass, not mine," and "I think you should be down on your fucking knees...
...will not fight Tyson). Bert Randolph Sugar, publisher of Boxing Illustrated, gives three reasons: "The state athletic commissions will lift his license. No hotel chain will sponsor it. And the event would have no advertising. You just can't see the announcer saying, 'And in this corner, the convicted rapist . . . Mike Tyson...