Carnival Against Sexual Violence 62

While I was traveling, the 62nd edition of the Carnival Against Sexual Violence came out at abyss2hope. Here is the legal section:

In An honest (and honorable?) gendered sentencing outcome in adult-teen sex case posted at Sentencing Law and Policy, we get a discussion about Judge Robert Lynn's comments explaining why he gave Robin Mowery a lower sentence than he would have if the defendant had been a man and the 15 year old who pursued the adult sexually had been a girl.

In Left for Dead posted at Women in Crime Ink, we get a discussion about the upcoming parole hearing for Munk Caselow Willis who was convicted after he and 2 other men kidnapped 2 women, raped them, beat them, shot one as the women ran for safety, and left her for dead in an abandoned quarry.

In Absurd Reason for Rape Acquittal posted at Lawmatters.in, we get a discussion of a high court ruling, which was later reversed by the India Supreme Court, that "Law is well settled that it is not possible for a single man to commit sexual intercourse with a healthy adult female in full possession of her senses against her will.”

In Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl posted at Hair Balls, we get a discussion of the fallout of plain clothes policemen grabbing a girl in front of her house and failing to understand why that girl and her father would fight to keep that girl from being put into a van with 3 men.

In If You're A Black Girl You Must Be A Prostitute posted at Womanist Musings, we get a discussion about how plainclothes police responding to a report of prostitution by white women resulted in their grabbing a 12 year old girl from her own yard and declaring that they know she's a prostitute.

In Lesbian Raped and Beaten, Left Naked on Train Tracks posted at The Progressive Puppy, we get a discussion about the gang rape of a woman near San Francisco.

In Easing the agony of rape victims - little steps to make a difference. posted at Fight Back, we get a discussion of changes in India to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) Act to provide some relief to rape victims.

In Can A Crime That Happens 248,300 Times A Year In The US Really Be Rare? posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open, I discuss the results of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) for 2007.