Ohio Rape

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  US Rape Survivor, 10, Crosses State To End Pregnancy After Abortion Ban

  Ohio police have confirmed a 10-year-old rape survivor crossed state lines to terminate her pregnancy, local media reported Wednesday, in a case drawing broad attention after the US Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion care.

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  Ex-Mayor Charged In 4-Year-Old's Rape Said Girl Was A Willing Participant, Records Say

  A former Ohio mayor indicted on rape charges reportedly confessed that he had sex with a child - a young girl, who, the man claimed, was a willing participant.

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  'Worst Thing That Has Come Before This Court': Mother Financed Addiction By Letting Drug Dealer Rape Her Child

  "I can honestly say that, in three-and-a-half years on the bench, this is by far the worst thing that has come before this court." So said Judge Leslie Ghiz of the Hamilton (Ohio) County Pleas Court as she sentenced April Corcoran to 51 years in prison Tuesday.

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  Daycare Worker Who Raped Toddlers On Video Actually 'Charming,' Lawyer Says

  There's no disputing that Heather Koon videotaped herself raping four children in an Elyria, Ohio, daycare before sending the footage to her boyfriend, a convicted sex offender.

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  Teenager Accused Of Using App To Livestream Her Friend Being Raped

  An Ohio teenager has been accused of livestreaming the alleged rape of her 17-year-old friend using the social media app Periscope.

• Ohio Kidnapping Victim Says She Forgives Captor

  One of the three women held captive for nearly a decade in a Cleveland house before escaping last year says she forgives the man who kidnapped and tortured her all those years.

• Ohio killer executed with new lethal drug combo

  A condemned killer appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution with the first use of a lethal injection process never before tried in the US.

• Alleged rape at US university was shared on social media

  Pictures posted online in disbelief by witnesses of a sidewalk sexual encounter near Ohio University could hold the key to a rape investigation after a college student told police she was the victim of an assault.

• Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro died of auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide

  Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, and two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of him in the hours before he died, the state said on Thursday.

• Home of Cleveland kidnapper is demolished

  The Ohio house where three women were held captive and raped for over a decade has been quickly demolished, and authorities want to make sure the rubble isn't sold online as "murderabilia" - mementos from a murder scene.

• Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro sentenced to thousand years in jail

  An Ohio judge on Thursday sentenced Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to life in prison for abducting, raping and holding captive three women for as long as 11 years, and murder for forcing one of the women to abort her pregnancy.

• Ohio kidnappings: Accused pleads guilty, gets life plus 1000 years in prison

  A man accused of keeping three women captive in his Cleveland home for a decade, beating them, and raping them repeatedly is waiting to be sentenced after pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty.

• Ohio kidnapping: 977 counts filed against Ariel Castro

  The man charged with kidnapping and raping three women over a decade in his Cleveland home faced arraignment on an expanded, 977-count indictment.

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  Serena Williams apologizes for rape case comments

  Williams was quoted regarding a case in Steubenville, Ohio, in a story about her posted online on Tuesday by Rolling Stone.

• Ohio kidnapping case: Ariel Castro pleads not guilty

  A Cleveland man has pleaded not guilty to holding three women captive in his home for a decade and raping them.