Sentence examples for forcible penetration from inspiring English sources

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The old definition — "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will" — covered only forcible penetration of a woman's vagina by a penis, and excluded many other kinds of sexual assaults that count as rape under more modern definitions.

The jury was not able to reach a verdict on one of the accusations of predatory sexual assault: rape, which New York law defines as any forcible "penetration, however slight" of the vagina by a penis.

(You didn't mean forcible penetration literally?).

First, the legal and cultural definition of rape has expanded to encompass far more than forcible penetration by a stranger.

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The upshot is a recommendation that the F.B.I. rape statistics, previously limited to forcible vaginal penetration by males, cover any penetration that is genital, oral or anal, regardless of whether the victims and the offenders are male or female.

John RK Howard was initially charged with felony forcible sexual penetration by use of a foreign object, but on Friday, the 19-year-old reached a plea bargain that allowed him to plead guilty to a felony count of injury to a child.

Sexism, misogyny and hetero-normative standards result in rape being largely understood as forcible vaginal penetration of a woman by a man.

Maybe next time Hayden's on television, which will likely be tomorrow given his wall-to-wall media schedule, someone should read him the US Justice Department's official definition of "forcible rape": The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.

The FBI's definition of rape only included forcible male penile penetration of a female vagina until the Obama administration changed it in 2012.

For example, the outdated definition did not count forcible anal or oral penetration, the penetration of the vagina or anus with an object or other body part, the rape of a man, or the rape of a woman by another woman.

Joseph Leo Amaya faces two counts of forcible rape and three counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object.

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