Sharpton made national headlines in 1987 after he became an advocate for Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old, black New Yorker who claimed six white police officers abducted and raped her.
Refugees similarly barred from entering America include a woman forced to cook for the Liberian rebels who raped her and a Colombian teenager forced by his paramilitary captors to bury his murdered parents.
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When a 13-year-old girl in Zambia was repeatedly raped by her teacher, the Adolescent Girls Legal Defense Fund supported the girl's court case against the teacher who raped her and the headmaster who knowingly allowed the assaults to occur.
The suspect, whose former girlfriend claimed he had raped her, was at a gate inside Terminal 4 waiting to board an 8:40 a.m. flight to London when he was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, the official said.
According to the California Innocence Project, the woman later admitted that Banks had not kidnapped or raped her during a consensual encounter at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Banks was a middle linebacker with a scholarship offer from the University of Southern California.
Recently, CNN spoke with a Nepalese woman who was beaten and raped by her employer in Kuwait and managed to escape to the Nepalese embassy.
The court heard she was abused as a child and bullied at school, she was raped in her teenage years, before entering an abusive relationship during which her then boyfriend shaved her hair off to stop her going out.
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The play - opening at the Comedy Theatre in October - will see the 38-year-old play a former political prisoner who kidnaps a man she believes raped and tortured her.
The IPCC said one woman who called 999 to report her friend had been raped was told by the operator to take her to a local police station.
It is named after 19-year-old Jeanne Clery, who was raped and murdered in her Lehigh University dorm in 1986.
In March, a 35-year-old woman in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest, told police she had been raped in the fields around her village.
Her fans have shared their experiences with Ms Winfrey in part because she has shared her experiences with them, confiding to her audience that she was raped by a cousin at nine years of age, became pregnant as a teenager, and experimented with cocaine in her 20s.
One in three women around the globe will be beaten, raped, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
In court, her 32-year-old mother broke down as she relived the moment her daughter told her she was being raped by Dunbar.
Police are investigating after a 13-year-old girl told her family she had been raped in Crawley.
Ottawa, Canada (CNN) -- A Canadian teenager, who was allegedly gang-raped and bullied, has died, her family said.
In Jackson's simplified, sweetened, and CGI-besotted telling, "The Lovely Bones" is a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens. (There's no indication that Susie gets raped, as she does in the novel, and her murder occurs off screen.) "Atonement's" terrific Ronan, with her astonishing glacier-blue eyes, watches from a scenic afterlife as her father (Mark Wahlberg), mother (Rachel Weisz), younger siblings, and selected friends simultaneously heal from their loss and search for her killer.
Courage, he reflected, was when a village woman in war-torn Congo left her house and walked to the well, knowing that she would probably be raped by marauding soldiers before she got there.
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Mairead Philpott also said she was raped while on holiday as a teenager and was at "rock bottom" when she met her future husband Michael Philpott.
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The meeting with Mr Salmond and Mr MacAskill is to take place after it emerged that Peter Tobin, the convicted sex offender who raped and murdered the Polish student, had been on the run for almost a year before he killed her.
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