Marry-your-rapist law
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marry-your-rapist-law-183-4863114
title:
Marry-your-rapist law
text:
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. The "marry-your-rapist" law is a legal way for the accused to avoid prosecution or punishment. Although the terms for this phenomenon were only coined in the 2010s, the practice has existed i
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description:
Law that exonerates a male rapist if he marries his female victim
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marry-your-rapist_law
date created:
2017-08-04T02:34:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:34:27Z
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