Crimes lurking from home corners

LAST week, CNN released news of an investigation into a widespread online network that has been dubbed a “rape academy”.

- SHARANYA MANIVANNAN

Through the use of encrypted chatrooms and even websites, members of this network were discovered exchanging material on how to drug and then sexually assault women. The investigation shows that the vast majority of members were using these platforms in order to commit acts of violence on their own partners. One pornographic website that propagated such information clocked an overall 62 million views in February alone, some of which went to what has been dubbed “sleep” content — pertaining to assault under sedation.

These revelations happen a year-and-a-half after the landmark Mazan rape case in France, in which 48 men were found guilty of raping a sedated woman over a period of nine years. That woman, Gisele Pelicot, waived anonymity and publicly testified against her husband, Dominique Pelicot, and his many accomplices. She did this while simultaneously processing the violence she had undergone without her aw