Rape

A report prepared by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy chair Lale Karab?y?k about "social deterioration" in Turkey during the 13-year rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has alleged increasing rates of homicide, sexual abuse, drug addiction and sexual assault incidents. 

Bosnia's Federation entity plans to create a new commission to assess whether victims of wartime rape are entitled to compensation - but victims' associations remain sceptical about the outcome.

A parole board on April 6 rejected a request for early release for Israeli ex-president Moshe Katsav, who began serving a seven-year prison term in 2011 for rape and other sexual offences.
 
A justice ministry statement announced the refusal, saying the parole board found "he expressed no regret and no sympathy toward the victims of his crimes."  

The Supreme Court of Appeals has reversed a judgment sentencing a woman and her partner to nine years and four months in jail after they attempted to force the former's eight-year-old daughter to have sexual intercourse with the latter.

In its ruling, the court argued that the plot did not go beyond the "preparation phase," daily Cumhuriyet has reported. 

Turkey is suffering a lack of any system to guard against child sex abuse, according to a lawyer who has advocated for children.

Stories of the sexual abuse of minors have been pouring in for the last couple of weeks. In almost every case, the molester is a character that the child should be trusting: A teacher, an imam or a family member such as an uncle.

Figures by the Justice Ministry have displayed the plight surrounding child sex abuse cases in Turkey, which have recently come under the spotlight, with the main opposition party leader suggesting child sex abuse has increased almost 500 percent since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002.

A cab driver in the eastern province of Diyarbak?r took a mentally handicapped 14-year-old boy home and sexually abused him. A medical report was presented and confirmed sexual abuse. 

An indictment was prepared and the defendant was facing up to 15 years in prison on charges of "aggravated sexual abuse of a minor."

German authorities have released the photos of five suspects reportedly involved in the massive New Year’s Eve sexual assaults against women in Cologne Square. The German police publicised the photos of the five male suspects after extensive examination of visual and other data it managed to gather.

The Afghan asylum seekers, aged 14 and 34, have been arrested for sexually assaulting two young girls at a public swimming pool in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.