Comments as shocking as Trump's require a less sympathetic media response, especially in light of the reality of sexual violence – 400,000 women are sexually assaulted in the UK annually, with one in five women experiencing some form of sexual offence in their lifetime.
This is a highly technical form of the offence which involves a number of legal tests.
This creates four forms of the offence: unlawfully and maliciously wounding, with intent to either do grievous bodily harm (1) or resist arrest (2); and unlawfully and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm, with intent to either do grievous bodily harm (3) or resist arrest (4).
SOMETIMES, the best form of defence is offence, and this week General Pervez Musharraf has been causing plenty of it.
Mr Wolfowitz has been arguing for years that the world is a far more dangerous place than most people realise; that America needs to increase its military expenditure; and that the best form of defence is offence.
However, she got so rattled by the matter of why Labour voted for the EU budget cut that she started talking really fast and getting a little over-eager with the maxim 'the best form of defence is offence', none of which peels my spuds.
The aggravated forms of the offences under sections 4 and 4A are punishable by up to two years' imprisonment or an unlimited fine, while the aggravated section 5 offence is punishable by a fine of up to £2,500.
Significantly, "religious group" is defined as "a group of persons defined by reference to religious belief or lack of religious belief", so abuse directed at someone for not being a Muslim (or for not sharing the same interpretation of Islam as the speaker) may come within the aggravated forms of the offences.
Attempted and aggravated forms of all offences were also included.
It is even arguable that the person is committing the religiously aggravated form of one of the offences.
