He is accused of two counts of sexual molestation, one count of unlawful coercion and one count of rape based on their allegations that consensual sex became nonconsensual.
An Israeli court recently convicted Israel's former president Moshe Katsav on two counts of rape, based on accusations by former employees.
One prisoner, Josiah Sutton, was cleared in March after the DNA that had been used to convict him of rape, based on tests by the Houston laboratory, was retested.
Mr. Criner, then 33, was charged with capital murder and rape based on statements he made to three acquaintances that appeared to implicate him in the case.
However, the extraordinary African chambers – the tribunal set up to try Habré – changed the charges at the last minute and convicted Habré of rape, based on her account.
Last year she appeared in Channel 4's Born with Two Mothers, about an embryo mix-up between a black and a white couple, and earlier this year she filmed the verbatim piece, The True Voice of... Rape, based on real-life testimony.
Mr. Boxley was charged with two counts of rape based on a complaint lodged this morning by a 22-year-old woman described by the authorities as an Assembly employee who is his acquaintance and professional colleague.
In a new twist, the Bhandara police, who had registered a case for murder and rape based on the initial postmortem report, are now are considering the possibility that the girls may not have been raped, which would change the focus of the investigation.
Two men there who were convicted of separate rapes based largely on Mr. Melnikoff's research and testimony were later exonerated.
This article uses sex legislation as an example to demonstrate how the old rape law based on coercion has anti-therapeutic effects on rape victims.
