The defendant physically attacked and raped the victim. The court of the first instance found the defendant guilty of rape (part 1 of Article 152 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - after this The Criminal Code) and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment. However, the appellate court released the defendant from serving the sentence and instead imposed a three-year probationary period (Article 75 of the Criminal Code).
Marivic Genosa admitted that she killed her husband after a quarrel in their house and was sentenced to death in 1998. Genosa appealed her sentence, claiming she acted in self-defense as a victim of battered woman syndrome (BWS). The appeal posited that the consistent abuse Genosa faced at the hands of her husband had caused BWS, which meant that she was in a constantly threatened state and acted in self-defense when she killed him. The Supreme Court ruled that as a victim of BWS, her husband’s cumulative provocation had broken down her self-control and made the murder an act of passion.
The Regional Trial Court of Bohol and the Court of Appeals found the appellant, Pedro Rupal, guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl after dragging her to a nearby farm and later threatening the lives of her mother and siblings. Rupal appealed, pointing to inconsistencies in the number of times the victim testified to being raped, and arguing that the prosecution was unable to sufficiently prove his guilt.
Resolution of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, No. 5, Tdo 120/2024 (2024) on domestic violence and vicarious trauma.
This report from HealthRight International (full title in English: Analytical report according to the results of the study on the dependence between the committed crime, domestic violence, gender-related violence among convicted women with experience of using drugs, using mixed methods) demonstrates a correlation between domestic violence (or any other type of violence) against women and subsequent commission of crimes by these women (based on a survey among women serving sentences in Chernihiv and Kachaniv prisons).
