For the first time since her 2002 abduction, Elizabeth Smart testified today against her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell, who abducted her at knifepoint and held her hostage for nine months in 2002. She was only 14 at the time, and taken from her Salt Lake City home.

Roman Polanski is a great director, there is no doubt of that. Howver, the 76-year-old Academy Award-winner was recently arrested in Switzerland and now awaits extradition proceedings. Many have sprung to his defense, but excepts of his victim's testimony may dissuade many of his supporters.

University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino admitted to consensual sex with Karen Sypher, wife of Louisville equipment manager Tim Sypher, according to Louisville Metro Police reports obtained by The Courier-Journal under the Kentucky Open Records Act. The incident occurred at a Louisville restaurant on Aug. 1st, 2003.

Four boys, aged 9 - 14, have been accused of raping an eight-year-old in the Phoenix, AZ area. Police say the boys lured the girl to an empty shed on July 16th, using the pretense of giving her gum.

Orange County woman is sentenced to jail for lying about being raped in an effort to extort money from her victim.

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has backed down on the so-called "marital rape" law, which had such draconian elements as a ban on married women leaving their homes without their husbands’ permission and the requirement that a wife be available for sex at least every four days unless ill or in danger of harm from sexual intercourse.

Prosecutors now say eight-year-old Sandra Cantu from Tracy, California, may have been raped and molested before she was killed and her body put in a suitcase and dumped.

This is heinous, no matter what your opinion of homosexuality. NGO ActionAid has released a report titled "Hate Crimes: the rise of corrective rape in South Africa." Corrective rape, meaning that the rape is done in the belief it will lead to heterosexuality among the lesbians.

A 17 year old Nigerian pupil who was gang-raped 7 months ago is still in a hospital in Southwestern Nigeria.

Court says rape of civilians in the Central African Republic was committed in numbers that cannot be ignored under international law.