Correction: Rapist's Home-Bodies story

In stories Oct. 30-Nov. 4 about the discovery of corpses in the home of a sex offender, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Cleveland police department, erroneously reported the criminal background of Anthony Sowell. He was convicted of attempted rape, not rape, according to the Ohio prison system and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court documents.

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STORY REMOVED: US--Rapist's Home-Bodies

The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a sex offender who lived in a Cleveland house where several corpses were found. Authorities say that despite a police news release that described Anthony Sowell as a convicted rapist, he was convicted only of attempted rape. The story will be refiled as CLEVELAND-BODIES FOUND.

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UK: Taxi rapist jailed for at least 8 years

The driver of one of London's iconic black cabs was sentenced to at least eight years in prison Tuesday for an 18-month campaign of rape and assault against his female passengers.

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Reno cops identify suspect in student killing case

Police in Reno, Nev., have released the identity of a suspect in the January kidnapping and slaying of a 19-year-old college student who was abducted as she slept on a friend's couch.

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Doctor key to prosecuting Maryland serial rapist

More than 30 years ago, long before the advent of DNA technology, Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker began freezing semen samples taken from rape victims in the hope that they might one day be useful to police.

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Indefinite lockup decided for Wash. state rapist

A jury unanimously decided Thursday that a convicted rapist is a danger and should remain confined even though he has completed his sentence in a case that terrorized the Spokane area for more than a decade.

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Pa. 'sex cult' child rapist released from prison

A man who raped three girls at a church-affiliated school that prosecutors labeled a sex cult was released Friday after serving more than 30 years in prison, putting his neighbors on edge.

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UK woman can sue rapist who won lottery millions

A British woman assaulted by a serial rapist has won the right to sue the attacker who became a millionaire by winning the lottery while in prison.

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Rapist Who Preyed on Men Gets 99 Years

A man convicted this week of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint was sentenced to 99 years in prison Thursday after he apologized for that attack and the rapes of four other young men.

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Police: Suspect Posed As Katrina Evacuee

Police arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting at least six women after talking his way into their homes by pretending to be a Hurricane Katrina evacuee.

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Another guilty verdict for the so called "Stinky Rapist," Jerrod Pass.

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If I were the president of USA, I would (fill in here)...

If you were the president of USA, what would you do to make America better? Better as in economic sense, justice, quality of life, etc...

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Anthony Sowell appeared in court under tight security. Assistant Prosecutor Brian Murphy called Sowell "an incredibly dangerous threat to the public" and said he could face the death penalty.

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Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski's rape victim, whom he dubs a "hooker."

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People like this should be put to death emmediately. There is no cure so the only solution is make it a mandory life sentence or death.

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NEW DELHI: A day after a 20-year-old computer instructor was gangraped by labourers who waylaid her, another rape was reported from Rangpuri in Mahipalpur on Tuesday evening - this time, a 28-year-old graduate who was appearing for a job interview.

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As a fellow child rape victim, hearing Roman Polanski's supporters cite his filmmaking to justify his freedom brings the injustice of that incident flooding back.

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Believing a man who raped two women at gunpoint might kill a woman if he remains free, a judge sentenced the man to decades in prison, hoping to keep him behind bars for as long as the law will allow.

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Disturbing flaws in Florida's background screening system have put children, seniors and the disabled in the care of convicted felons with records that include rape, child molestation and murder, an investigation by the Sun Sentinel newspaper has found.

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A 15-year-old girl who said she was raped in a wooded area in New Smyrna Beach drew a sketch of her attacker and released it to the media.

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20-year-old Travis Bragg faces two counts of rape after deputies say he lured women onto dates through MySpace.

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Thomas Allen Wilcox walked into the bedroom of a Northeast Portland family residence early Tuesday morning and stood over a mother and her two young children sleeping together with a knife in his hand, according to county court documents.

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A judge handed down the harshest possible punishment Monday for an accused serial rapist known for his foul body odor and tendency to prey on single black mothers.

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THE rapist at the centre of the "C Case" abortion controversy has been jailed for 21 years for raping an 85-year-old woman.

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An Italian would-be rapist had his penis severed after it was bitten off by his intended victim. The 28-year-old, not named for legal reasons, had invited a girlfriend to his home in Roccabianca, northern Italy, for a cocktail.

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Jackson police have charged Darius Amontee Cole, 20, with rape of a child after DNA evidence matched him to the rape, according to a news release from the Jackson Police Department.

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Broken, frail, with only weeks to live, Raymond Hewlett is the man the McCanns fear could take the secrets of their daughter's disappearance to the grave.

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A RAPIST struck after dropping on his terrified teenage victim from the CEILING of a nightclub toilet.

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The police were able to arrest this man. He had kidnapped the woman and attacked her. She called on her cell phone but couldn't talk. You would not want someone like that in your hotel or near your kids right?

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KANNAPOLIS, NC -- Kannapolis police say they charged a man with using Craigslist to hire a man to rape his wife. The attack happened while the couple's two children were home, but police say they were not aware of the attack and were not injured.

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Philadelphia's police commissioner says there will be no charges against neighbors who beat a man sought for questioning in the rape of an 11-year-old girl.

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SANFORD, Fla. -- The mother of a child rapist collapsed and died in the hallway outside a Sanford courtroom as a hearing was being held on her son's possible release.

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Prosecutors filed a rape charge Monday against a Locust Grove man who is accused of sexually assaulting an 81-year-old woman in her home.

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LOWELL -- A Level-3 sex offender with a self-admitted foot fetish won't see a woman's bare foot for at least another seven years after he pleaded guilty to raping an unconscious Carlisle woman who awoke only to find him sucking her toes.

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"In April of 2004, Hood was tried and convicted of kidnapping and aggravated rape in juvenile court. He appealed his conviction, and the case was heard in criminal court later that year.

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