Sentence examples for claim of rape from inspiring English sources
She made the claim of rape only when threatened with confinement in a mental health center.
The 71-year-old was sued by the Hamiltons in 2002, over his role in promoting on television a false claim of rape against the couple.
The first one built his reputation on what has long been officially pronounced a lie: Tawana Brawley's claim of rape in 1987.
"The legal position that pregnancy disproved a claim of rape appears to have been instituted in the U.K. sometime in the 13th century," the medical historian Vanessa Heggie wrote in a blog post for The Guardian on Monday.
This case underlined the need for police and prosecutors fully to investigate and carefully to consider the circumstances in which an allegedly false claim of rape, sexual assault, or domestic violence is made.
Swedish prosecutors, who have been seeking to enforce a European Arrest Warrant to question Mr Assange about a claim of rape in 2010, also dismissed the report, saying it had no formal impact under the country's law.
As so often, the authorities were reluctant to take the young woman's claims of rape seriously.
More seriously, last year, five women in the US filed claims of rape or sexual harassment against him, the outcome of which is unknown.
"To put claims of rape in this category is to buy the idea that rape reports are by nature ambiguous, and that feelings override facts.
While identifying as a feminist, I believed the media when they said that false claims of rape were common and that men's lives were ruined by it.
