The recent wave of rapes in Rio — some captured on video cameras — have cast a spotlight on the unresolved contradictions of a nation that is coming of age as a world power.
The attack, in late March of this year, drew scrutiny to a wave of rapes on public vans and buses, pointing to the dangers in using public transportation in Brazil's major cities.
A picture caption on Saturday with the continuation of an article about a recent wave of rapes in public locations in Rio de Janeiro that have cast a spotlight on conflicting notions of image and class in Brazil misstated the circumstances of the creation of women-only cars on trains in Rio.
"I was like, 'Could this have been avoided if they had paid attention to my case?' " A recent wave of rapes in Rio — some captured on video cameras — have cast a spotlight on the unresolved contradictions of a nation that is coming of age as a world power.
Not only that, but civil court documents show that the owners of Model Mayhem knew about the first wave of rapes but failed to issue a warning to users.
But when I met with 20 or so Guinean women to hear about their experiences on Sept. 28 the day Guinean soldiers trained their guns on pro-democracy protesters and then, allegedly, unleashed a brutal wave of rapes something was different.
In his second book, Coleman would expand on the idea of copycatting, this time focusing on how the proliferation of the telegraph seemed to coincide with the crimes of Jack the Ripper, and how a wave of rapes and murders swept Europe in the wake of salacious coverage of his crimes.
I still find it incomprehensible that he would release mentally ill criminals, prone to violence, onto an innocent population here in the United States with a wave of murder, rape and all manner of violent crimes going all the way up I-95 three years afterwards.
The coup by the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group unleashed a wave of looting, rapes and massacres by its fighters that degenerated into clashes with Christian self-defense militias.
