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Police took 43-year-old Hartland into custody after he had allegedly approached a victim in public. The victim is a witness in his upcoming rape trial.

Black cab driver John Worboys, 60, has spent 9 years and 9 months in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, and raping another woman.

The vulnerable woman was raped in her home in the Rossmore area of Poole, Dorset, after 10pm on Saturday (30 December). Dorset Police say no arrests have been made.

The black-cab driver is alleged to have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London.

Rosendo Xo Pec was charged with murder over the violent death of 76-year-old Betty Jane Willis. If found guilty he'll face life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A man has been charged with sexual abuse and faces up to five years in prison for allegedly groping a women while she slept on a flight.

Six firefighters in the United States have been charged with a misdemeanor offence following accusations they gang-raped a 17-year-old girl.

Lawrence McKinney was wrongfully convicted in 1978 and only released in 2009. A recent exoneration from the Tennessee Governor means he can finally ask for compensation.

Gizar Ziyangareev beat Anna Barmina and attacked her with a knife, before dragging her into the woods to rape her with the branch of a tree in the western city of Ufa in September 2015, where all his crimes occurred.

The incident happened in India's capital city of Delhi when the girls were playing outside their home.

DNA tests confirmed Domingo Bulacio was the father of the children born by his victim, named locally as Antonia. The eight children were fathered over a 22-year-period.

Ronnie Lynn Gipson confessed to the crimes while chatting with the victim on Facebook before telling her to "get over it".

Pennsylvania officials said Kurtz was arrested after DNA obtained from his discarded cigarettes connected him to two of the crimes.

Bristol Crown Court heard that Syvil Morris had sex with a woman at a swingers' club but later beat and forced himself on another woman at her home.

Amazon Prime video users have stumbled across a Japanese show called Tokyo Train Girls, which features groping and up-skirt shots of women on public transport.

Eniola Balogun pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and possession of indecent images of a child at Wood Green Crown Court.

The victim was at a local bar Sunday night drinking after which one of her friends booked a cab for her.

Raping a woman was not only dishonourable to the victim, but was regarded as "highly defamatory" to her male relatives - who could kill the perpetrator without risk of punishment.

The men were also convicted of murder, membership in a rebel movement and illegal weapons possession.

Samuel Armstrong, 24, an aide for South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, allegedly raped a woman in his boss's office in the Palace of Westminster in October 2016.

CBS News uncovered a culture of systematic sexual misconduct at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which is a feeder school to the US Air Force.

Dylan Collins has been convicted of rape and assault leading to actual bodily harm following a trial at Southampton Crown Court.

A dating app has banned sexual offenders and ex-offenders. IBTimes investigates whether this is the best way to prevent online dating-related violence.

A 15-year-old boy is accused of raping a girl, also 15, at school on November 9.

Abdourahman Amadeo shouted "Get this h** out of my bed" after trying to rape drunken 22-year-old student.

Charlie Pearce, from Leicester, had been out celebrating his 17th birthday when he raped and bludgeoned his victim in Leicester's Victoria Park last year.

According to the public prosecutor, this is the second most severe punishment under the POCSO Act in Tamil Nadu.

Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.

Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.

Travis Burton allegedly punched the girl in the face before he bound her with tape, cut off her underwear and raped multiple times.