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Judi Lynn

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Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:00 PM Mar 2017

Italian court: No rape happened since woman didn't scream [View all]

Source: Associated Press

Italian court: No rape happened since woman didn't scream
Updated 4:31 pm, Thursday, March 23, 2017


ROME (AP) — Italy's justice minister has reportedly asked officials to look into a case in which a court acquitted a man of raping a woman because she didn't scream.

The Italian news agency ANSA said Thursday that Minister Andrea Orlandohas asked ministry inspectors to begin checking into the case.

ANSA said a court in Turin had ruled last month that the woman's saying "Enough!" to her colleague who allegedly raped her constituted too weak a reaction to prove that she was sexually attacked. The ruling specified she didn't scream or ask for help.

Center-right Forza Italia opposition lawmaker Annagrazia Calabria decried the ruling, saying, "Certainly, you cannot punish the personal reaction of a woman terrified by what is happening to her."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Italian-court-No-rape-happened-since-woman-11023776.php

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