You're defending him? A rapist!

Traditional elders also encourage practices such as marriage between a rapist and his victim.

It focused on the question of consent, instead of the force or coercion used by the rapist.

A rapist who knowingly exposes a rape complainant to HIV through the rape would receive the heaviest minimum sentence.

And I want to talk about a girl that I just met recently in Bukavu, who was impregnated by her rapist.

He said, You know, I've got the Stockwell Strangler on one side of me and I've got the 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' rapist on the other side of me.

MOSCOW Colonel Yuri Budanov is a convicted rapist and murderer. After serving half his prison sentence for the rape and murder of an 18 year old Chechen, Elsa Kungayeva, he was released last December.

Often in rural areas rape cases are not reported to the police for fear of revenge or because the family of the complainant would rather resolve the problem with the family of the rapist.

This helps explain the intense corruption present in Afghan courts, where honor can be redeemed by bribing a judge to have a rapist or murderer released. As violence is strictly a private matter, relinquishing justice to state institutions could be an unacceptable humiliation.