Word: rapists
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...need any more evidence than that was to insult and trivialize rape survivors everywhere, to perpetuate the abhorrent tradition of blaming the victim. But it should work in just the opposite way. The more horrifying we consider the crime of rape, the more horrifying the title of "rapist" becomes and the more carefully the accusation must be considered...
...official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S. the rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward rape are practically medieval. In Johannesburg, where the HIV-infection rate is reckoned to be 40% among men in the "rapist" age bracket (20 to 29), many believe raping a virgin will cure HIV. Earlier this month a prominent judge sentenced a 54-year-old man who had raped his 14-year-old daughter to just seven years in prison. Because the crime took place within the family, Judge John Foxcroft explained...
That may be happening. Since 1998, the Criminal Law Amendment Act began providing for more severe punishments for rape, including life sentences for gang rapists. Furthermore, FBI officials from the U.S. are training investigators and prosecutors who will be working in 20 courts devoted to trying sex crimes. These are scheduled to open in April 2000. Meanwhile, Smith refuses to give in to depression. The rapist, she says, "cannot imprison my mind. I have the power." She maintains that "God sent me this challenge. I have to turn this evil into good, and that is why I am speaking...
...during the assault, and the investigators didn't have any solid leads. For years Smith lived in fear that he would return and attack her or her daughters. But one day, her husband, a police officer, came home with good news: the state DNA lab had caught her rapist. Norman Jimmerson, in fact, was already in jail, convicted of kidnapping and robbing two other women around the same time that Smith was attacked. When his DNA was entered into the state's data bank--something Virginia law now requires of all felons--it matched a semen sample recovered from Smith...
...harnessing the crime-busting power of DNA is building up state databases, like the one that found Smith's rapist. Forty-three states now have such databases, and they are growing rapidly. Virginia's DNA bank, for example, currently has 190,000 samples, which have produced about 60 matches so far. Those successes are likely to increase rapidly as Virginia adds 8,000 DNA samples a month...