Sentence examples for prosecute a rape from inspiring English sources

"Ken Buck refused to prosecute a rape case, even though the attacker confessed.

Instead, he will ask his in house counsel whether it is "in the corporation's best interest" to prosecute a rape allegation that occurred in one of their stores.

The film has been viewed and no doubt studied by a myriad of military leaders including Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who after seeing the film took the action to transfer the decision to prosecute a rape allegation out of the unit commander's hands and up to the rank of colonel.

"I do not want to wait another year to enact the one reform survivors have asked for in removing commanders with no legal training and conflicts of interest from the decision of whether or not to prosecute a rape or sexual assault," she said in a statement.

Under California law, the legal deadline for prosecuting a rape allegation involving an adult victim is 10 years.

Think about how difficult the legal system makes prosecuting a rape, for example.

At one point during Monday's panel, the moderator asked what the federal government is doing to get more local district attorneys to prosecute campus rape cases, a question that drew a huge round of applause from the audience.

On our trip to Kenya, we visited a small village forty miles from Nairobi, where the mission had helped the police successfully prosecute the rape of a six-year-old girl, whom I'll call Geraldine.

The school has helped prosecute a man accused of raping a 4-year-old kindergartner who required surgical repairs and is working to end the impunity on sexual violence in the community.

A 9 p.m. episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (13.62 million) began a procedural mystery about how to prosecute a wealthy oddball (Alfred Molina) for rape; the 10 p.m. "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (18.67 million) picked up where its sibling series left off.

If a commander decides a rape will not get prosecuted, it will not be.