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Police Officer Charged with Rape in Md.

A 24-year-old Cambridge police officer has been charged with rape in an off-duty incident.

2013/05/03

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VP Joe Biden: Abused Women Fear Being Raped By The System

Vice President Joe Biden says many women who are raped or physically abused don’t report it because they don’t want, in his words, “to get raped again by the system.”

2013/05/01

Mother Accused of Trading Daughter for Debt

Montgomery County prosecutors say a mother and a Gaithersburg man are facing charges for trading sex with the woman’s daughter to pay off a debt.

2013/04/29

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Md. Senate Votes to Keep DNA Collection on Arrests

The Maryland Senate has voted to extend a state law that allows police to take DNA samples from arrestees for certain violent crimes.

2013/04/04

File photo of a prisoner in handcuffs. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

Teen Charged In Manassas Rape

A Manassas teenager has been charged in the March 28 rape of a 31-year-old Herndon woman.

2013/04/03

Md. Case Could Unravel the Country’s Criminal DNA Collection Practices

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will try to balance the rights of Americans who have not been convicted of a major crime to keep their DNA out of the government’s hands against the government’s interest in closing cold cases and the rights of crime victims to finally see justice done.

2013/02/26