Rape by proxy is a type of

rape Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person ...

where an attacker makes use of another individual to physically assault the victim.

Types

Coercing someone to have sex with a third party

In September 2007 a Utah woman raised in the

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (abbreviated to FLDS Church or FLDS) is a Mormon fundamentalist group whose members practice polygamy. It is variously defined as a cult, a sect or a new religious movement. The ...

brought to court a rape by proxy case against the church leader

Warren Jeffs Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...

whom she claims

coerced Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner through the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party. It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to in ...

her to marry her 19-year-old cousin and have sex with him when she was 14 years old. Jeffs was convicted on the charge.

Rapist under duress

Persons being forced to rape is a phenomenon researched in the

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where cases of forced incestuous assaults have been attested to by victims of rape during war times, these events mainly happen after a gang rape and entail fathers being forced to assault their daughters and sons forced to assault their mothers. Among acts of sexual violence in the Tigray War in

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and

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has been reported cases of men and boys being forced to rape their family members under threats of violence or death. The Rape of

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had similar events.

Rapist misled

In 2014 in

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, a woman and her daughters were the victim of several attempted assaults by men who were contacted by fake social media contacts posing to be the woman asking them to come to her home to engage in

rape fantasies A rape fantasy (sometimes referred to as rapeplay) or a ravishment is a sexual fantasy involving imagining or pretending being coerced or forcefully coercing another into sexual activity. In sexual roleplay, it involves acting out roles of coer ...

. An investigation revealed that it was the woman's ex-husband who had orchestrated the events. Brian Frosh and Kathleen Dumais of ''

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'' noted that "though her ex-husband was eventually brought to justice, prosecutors were forced to cobble together a lengthy list of charges to accumulate a sentence that would fit this novel crime" and that the phenomenon is not unique and needs new legislation to handle. They also state that rape by proxy by misleading solicitations online is a unique type of conspiracy as "the recruiters and recruits never meet, never exchange anything of value and may never even communicate directly at all". As a result of this case the state senate passed a bill outlawing "posting information about another person advertising that they would welcome being sexually assaulted".

Types

Coercing someone to have sex with a third party

Rapist under duress

Rapist misled

See also

References

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