If they don t fight back, it is easier for a defense attorney to reframe the rape as consensual sex. In the 1991 issue of the New York times there was a reading dealing with rape. The article was about the deaths of nineteen young women in Kenya during a mass rape at a boarding school dormitory. This quote expresses how in some cultures it is acceptable for women to be viewed as possessions to be taken at ones own discretion when and wherever it suits ones fancy as long as death does not occur. Rape is the crime of forcing sexual intercourse upon a person against the individuals will.
Rape is the act of forcing another person to submit to sexual acts.
Rape is a violent crime of opportunity where accessibility and vulnerability of the victim are primary factors which must be addressed. Only about two percent of all rapists are convicted and imprisoned. Some states require evidence from witnesses or evidence of bodily injury to the woman. Some states also require proof that a woman struggled to resist her attacker. Some states also require proof that that a woman struggled to resist her attacker.