failing rape victims. we are kept in rooms without service to call our friends or family without information during the worst moments of our lives and no one is taking our dna or checking on us. we are cast aside and told that rape is complicated. i read the law sympu ciphers, it complicated. i know the facts and evidence and it's a fact and abhor rent and a disgrace but it isn't complicated. the police wrote a warrant for arrest around two years ago. my case has been sitting at the district attorney's office since then languishing and they tell me they believe me and that i have done everything right but they do nothing, no arrest, no prosecution, the rapist and his accomplices remain free to prey on women and to hunt us for support. predators are embolden by the consequence free status of their crime. we need you to act. we need to hold departments and mepredators accountable, sf general, the da and the medical examiner, everyone needs to do better and they need to collaborate. their failing us. the dama

or in >> reporter: ajna is the product of rape. her mother was raped by a serb soldier who was a family acquaintance. afterwards her mother she made a decision that many other pregnt rape victims found impossible. she chose to keep her child. >> ( translated ): i am now living live to the full. but just two years ago i was literally struggling to survive; erocessing everything aft discovered who am i and what am i and how i came to this world. i was seeing a psychologist for a long time. i went to various experts who worked with me on empowerment, but as i got older i began to empower myself and accept the facts. >> reporter: it takes courage to break cover and reveal yourself as a product of wtime rape. a bosnian rape survivo' non profit organization estimates there are about 60 such young people. this male nurse makes no attempt to hide. his name is alen muhic and he was born in gorazde, a town 60 miles from sarajevo that was besieged for much of the war. >> ( translated ): i knew that i was a war baby but i didn't imagine my lif

we see about 350 rape case as year which is almost double the 131 reported rapes in previous years and as we know it's a very unreported crime. the establishment in a city office exclusively focused on sexual assault and harassment is very important and i support this wholeheartedly. the women's building is committed to working with community partners, city government and all women identified individuals. i urge the supervisors to move this issue forward. i want to thank hillary ronan for her leadership and bring attention to the women that were here. i don't see many men in the audience and that is part of the problem and why this issue has been ignored and put under the radar because women ove often he the voice and agency and this will do a small part in remed remedying that. thank you. [bell ringing] >> good afternoon. i am not a victim of sexual assault i do want to thank supervisor ronen for always being on the right side of issues. i am a broadcaster that broadcasts to the l latino community. i have heard a lot of stories and a lot of women are afraid to come forward because eve

someone who rapes a woman, a girl, should go to jail.they don't go to jail, nothing else matters. d toavai: zeid's report tr address this. emr military peacekeepers, he recommended thatr states hold courts martial in the country, making it easier to access witnesses and evidence. for civilian peacekeepers, he recommended an international agreement to ensure those accused of abuse wld face criminal prosecution. but there's been no widespread effort by u.n. member states to adopt the measures >> it is very simply the truth that the decision-making authority rests with the member ates, rests with the 193 governments of the united nations. and the u.n. secretariat, the civil servan working in that headquarters on first avenue, cannot impose on the member states a new judicial system. >> now an investigation that is sure to send shock waves around the world. >> navai: by early 2005 the international media had got hold of the didier bourguet story. >> scores of young gir in the congo were somehow lured into sex with a senior u.n. logisticf cer

and also on the show the invisible children of the bosnian war are born to mothers rapes during the conflict to be early one nine hundred eighty s. no one wanted to acknowledge them then now they're fighting for their records. only allow rock thanks for your company everyone. the israeli parliament has passed a controversial law which explicitly defines the country as the national homeland of the jewish people the new law makes hebrew the country's only official language downgrading arabic to special status it also states that only the country's jews have the right to self-determination israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the vote a defining moment in the history of zionism critics say the law is racist and discriminatory. protests in parliament against a law that is tearing up relations between jewish and arab israelis arab politicians were rejected as they spoke against the law which gives jews the unique right of national self-determination it passed with a narrow majority prime minister benjamin netanyahu described it as an historic day . zero this is a defining moment i

many rape survivors kept the assaults and their children's paternity a secret women like alaina. proceed to consider after my child was born i hate her because i was afraid. i thought someone would take her away or attack or kill her. alina who asked to speak anonymously was twenty three when an enemy soldier raped her she didn't tell her daughter but she learned the truth from her mother's police report that she discovered by chance. i know i know to think of you since she found days when she was conceived my daughter has been driven by raich rage against society of rage because she is an outcast they swept us under the rug as if none of us has ever happened they denied it when we showed ourselves they only talked about us when they needed something like our votes when there are elections. by asserting themselves publicly bosnia's invisible children can become a symbol of progress for the country a bridge towards ethnic reconciliation as a side will progress but if ignored these young men and women can become another symbol of a society stuck in a cycle of post-war divisions and

it was rape. at the end of the day, it was rape. at the end of the day, it was rape.ge of 12. for nearly ten years, she has been looking over her shoulder, worried her rapist may turn up to see her son. his niece had messaged me saying that he wa nted had messaged me saying that he wanted to see him and that they would come pick him up from my house and taken. i was scared, i didn't know if i would have two actually let him see him. because at that time, thejudge had said that the parent, had legal parental rights, they were there, that he had the piece of paper. the law in tiffany's state allows her to withdraw her rapists parental rights, many of them have defined thousands of dollars to do that, but she received legal aid. first we found out we didn't know how we were going to afford a lawyer, living paycheque to paycheque. more than 1000 miles away in florida, this woman is another rape survivor who has been to the legal process. she moved here after it giving birth, but her rapist tracked her down, demeaning to see her daughter. florida law had nothing to prevent

many rape survivors kept the assaults and their children's paternity a secret women like alina. posted to hookers that are them after my child was born i hit her because i was afraid. i thought someone would take her away or tuck or kill her. alina who asked to speak anonymously was twenty three when an enemy soldier raped her she didn't tell her daughter but she learned the truth from her mother's police report that she discovered by chance. i know i know you since you find out how she was conceived my daughter has been driven by rage rage against society rage because she is an outcast. they swept asunder the rug as if none of us has ever happened they denied it when we showed ourselves they only talked about it as when they needed something like our votes when there are elections. but for now voices like mine as are the only ones breaking the silence about bosnia's invisible children. is the state doesn't want to talk about it somebody needs to that's why i feel responsible if i've started something i need to see it through to the end it's the only way to finally achieve peace

and a lot gave pushbacks, don't want to read about rape, and the perpetrator of rape and women suffering, and -- >> people need to hold men accountable. and often times, and i don't want to be bothered with the reality of the world. and i find that painful from gay blue blue who deal with all manner of discrimination and suffering and aren't willing to extend their empathy to women. what is that about? it shows how far we have to go. when people say things like that i push further and say why. it could be i am feeling exhaustion which is a privilege but one i feel at times. i can't take any more suffering today but if i don't want to be made uncomfortable or think this is connected to me, and regardless of gender and sexuality, people need to realize this is a cost we need to have a society collectively. >> i just reading the poem about my rights with jim jordan because the poem is starting from the personal but she makes a case about how it is a reflection of the political landscape, how we treat land and how men treat land and the same thing we do to women we do to land. she makes this

been, like, "rape."t's the full joke. that's always been a concept that was shorthand for a certain type of joke. so it always meant a joke that is told by somebody who's not a survivor that's generally like dismissive of the concept of rape, it usually was brought up as sort of a taboo, punchy word that would just get a laughhe based onomic being brave enough to speak it. >> reporter: esposito wants to make sure the national conversation around sexual assault includes the voices of survivors. >> there were certain folks, high profile folks who were being called out as users, who were then losing opportunities, and that it seemed like the cycle was moving on to rehabbing those people's images. and that it was makingcle without ever talking about what it's like to ba survivor >> reporter: esposito says she was never taught that she could make her own decisiout sex. >> i didn't get sex ed. o sex ed.e i was raised super duper catholic in the suburbs of chicago. how catholic? i was raised so catholic we play

many rape survivors kept the assaults and their children's paternity a secret women like alaina. after my child was born i hate her because i was afraid. i thought someone would take her away or tuck or kill her. alina who asked to speak anonymously was twenty three when an enemy soldier raped her she didn't tell her daughter but she learned the truth from her mother's police report that she discovered by chance. i know i know the sense you find out is how she was conceived my daughter has been driven by raich rage against society of rage because she is an outcast they swept us under the rug as if none of us had ever happened they denied it when we showed ourselves there we talked about this when they needed something like our votes when there are elections. by asserting themselves publicly bosnia's invisible children can become a symbol of progress for the country a bridge towards ethnic reconciliation and societal progress but if ignored these young men and women can become another symbol of a society stuck in a cycle of post-war divisions and zero sum ethnic politics. but for

in may he used a knife in a rape.june he attacked a woman with the knife as she was defending herself against him. she was able to escape and ran to a nearby house. lazo is facing 12 felonies including the rapes of those four women, kidnapping three of them and threatening them with a deadly weapon. he will be in court this morning for his arraignment. lyft has confirmed that vilchez lazo was once a registered driver but was terminated when the company learned of the allegations. police say he used stickers for uber and lyft when he picked up his victims, but he wasn't using the apps at the time. >>> it is now 6:57. it's time for your "final 5". >> at least 22 soldiers are injured in the military base tent clams. authorities say wind from a landing helicopter toppled the structure around 9:30 last night at the fort hunter liggett army post in monterey county. the base reports there are no deaths and 22 confirmed injuries. most of them are minor. >>> a building at a kaiser permanente medical complex in santa rosa will

especially where rape culture exist? >> there was upon the kept coming up from no immediate cause and what she sees or referencing and then she is on a train in new york city and then is and if they have committee act of violence and basically and then that required to establish the cause every three minutes or every five minutes every day. and trying to make the case that women have had to prove their story questionable the moment they accuse someone of sexual assault. and with those stories that you chose in the way that you chose them. >> it is interesting that nobody believe me. and then to be consistently asked to testify to bare their souls to be believed. after the past couple of years we have seen a lot of men who know better who said i did not realize how bad it was. and then to pay attention people say this happened to me. and then to be demeaning or degraded or walking down the street. so i was drawn to the narratives how often women have to tell their stories to believe and how many women collectively had to

rape. and threatening them with a deadly weapon. he will be back in court tomorrow for his arraignment. andria borba, kpix 5. >> lyft confirmed the suspect was once a registered driver for them but he was terminated once the company learned of the allegations. the suspect used stick terrorize uber and lyft -- stickers for uber and lyft but not using the apps. >>> firefighters are responding to a tent collapse that left a dozen people injured at the army post in monterey county. the roaders of the landing helicopter kicked a-- rotors of the landing helicopter kicked up. 12 people have been hurt. >>> thousands of troops are at the base right now for a combat training exercise. >>> an oakland man accused of plotting isis inspired attacks in the bay area pleaded guilty to terror related charges. he is a graduate of berkeley high school and pleaded guilty to several felony charges including material support to a foreign terrorist organization. prosecutors say he opened account ons twitter and facebook to help isis and he discussed potent

they'll understand rape is bad but why is a rape joke bad? and so what point do you give up or do you not give up? >> i don't edge gauge in those conversations at all. it's my job to teach men basic humanity. that's just -- i get this question he all the time and it's a good question. so many young people are exhausting themselves trying to bring men to common sense, and just think what you could be doing with that energy. any man that needs to be told rape jokes are bad is not a man that you want to spend time with. as a friend, as a coworker, you might have to as a coworker but i just think those are not productive conversations. so what i tend to do is offer them reading material and -- no because i can send a link. have that kind of time but i don't have time to give them a class they can enroll in at my university if they really want to learn. so don't waste your time having those conversation us because it's futile. you're going to spend all this energy to bring them to the promised land and for what? what is going change really? they s

disregarding these types of rapes endangers the vast majority of women who are raped. this is precisely why i am creating "sharp," the office of sexual harassment and assault response and to remedy the complaints, and having transparency and developing policies to improve the systemic responses to sexual assaults and sexual harassment in san francisco. i'm looking to establish a team of three employees for the sharp office, one staff member will be tasked with interacting with sexual harassment survivors and their advocates to navigate through options for remedy. and one staff member will collaborate with the city departments and community agencies to gather data, understand current patterns of violence on the ground and have yearly reports with policy recommendations. and the sharp director will provided meiation between survive -- mediation between survivors and written guidance to remedy mistreatment and to proceed with cases. the director will also serve as the public spokesperson and liaison with the board of supervisors and the mayor. instrumental to the work of

she became pregnant after being raped at the age of 12.turn up to see her son. his niece had messaged me, saying that he wanted to see him and that they would come pick him up from my house and take him. i was scared, i did not know if i would have to actually let him see him. because at that time, thejudge had said that the parent, the legal parental rights were there, he had a piece of paper. the law in tiffany's state allows her to withdraw her rapist‘s parental rights. many women have to find thousands of dollars to do that, but she received legal aid for herfight. at first, when we found out, we were not sure how we would afford a lawyer. i mean, we were living pay cheque to pay cheque. more than 1000 miles away in florida, annalyn is another rape survivor who has been through the legal process. she moved here after giving birth, but her rapist tracked her down, demanding to see her daughter. florida law had nothing in place to prevent this from happening. nothing. which is pretty horrifying. let that sink in. annalyn‘s case changed h

they beat us and raped us day and night. when one was finished, the next one arrived, then the next one and the next, on and on. i want as many people as possible to know this is happening. reporter: it's not clear precisely how many women have suffered in this way, but they likely number in the hundreds of thousands. therese: when you listen to these stories, sometimes you are powerless. you miss ways to share compassion with people, but you just stay there, listening to them, looking at them. it's my only way of suppting them. because it's horrible to see how human beings can react, can behave like this. reporter: since 1996, war has raged relentlessly in the eastern democratic republic of congo. the conflict is mostly over natural resources, worth millions, that are sold to customers all over the world. but none of the profits end up here. back in bukavu, in a society torn apart, children suffer too. decades of war have left their mark on everyone here. this is clarisse, whose family tortured her for years, and burned me.

officers arrested him thursday on numerous charges including four counts of rape, kidnapping, assault and rape with a foreign object. >> this is the exact thing that everyone fears could happen here in the city. >> reporter: investigators say the rapist first struck five years ago, then again in february, march and june of this year. each time, police entered the attacker's dna into a national database. police formed a task force which included plainclothes teams working round the clock and last saturday police were going to issue a public warning about the case but the case broke open. >> the investigators in uniform and plainclothes were in the south of market area here in san francisco conducting undercover operations when they observed an individual who matched the -- his behavior and m.o. matched the description from the four previous sexual assaults. >> reporter: the dna matched and lazo is now in jail. his bail is more than $4 million. police are still trying to determine if lazo ever actually worked for a rideshare company. uber tells us he did not work for them. we asked wome

she says he kissed her, then raped her. she told him she wouldn't tell anyone if he drove her home, which he did. and that is where the trail goes cold until february of this year. police say the next three attacks happened to women leaving a bar in soma called temple bar. and they grew increasingly violent. in february, police say vilchez lazo drove a woman to a excluded area, got into the back seat and raped her. in may, they say he pulled a knife during a rape, then in june, the knife wasn't used as just a threat anymore. a fourth victim says she woke up in his back seat, her hands wet from her own blood from trying to fend off an attack. she was able to escape running to a house where people took her in and called police. former oakland police chief and kpix 5 law enforcement analyst howard jordan says he believes the next step for this suspect was murder. >> he would have definitely become more violent because of his actions and the type of work that he was doing. >> reporter: now, among the 12 felonies he is facing to

we know it was dna that linked him to four separate rape cases. he pleaded not guilty to charges surrounding four accusations of brazen rape. he was accused of posing as a ride share driver, pick up women from bars and nightclubs around san francisco, getting them alone and raping them. >> rape is one of the most horrific crimes imaginable that we have in our criminal justice system, and in this case we have four victims. >> reporter: attacks that spanned five years, each case growing more aggressive than the next. lazo's wife in the courtroom. she avoided cameras telling the media to ask her husband's lawyer. >> he's pled not guilty, he's maintained his innocence, and the constitution intitles him to presumption of innocence and to his day in court. >> reporter: according to can i see he's here illegally from peru. we reached out to the ride share company, lyft, who says it's beefing up its security checks after it said lazo fraglntly represented himself. he's being held without bail. we know his next court appearance is august 1st. >> amanda, th

a crisis for those wanting help from rape crisis — fern champion was raped two years ago and tried toet counselling from several rape crisis centres, but the waiting lists were closed. she's waived her right to anonymity to speak out. there is already so much shame around sexual assault and sexual violence. so when you do all the things they tell you you need to do, you report it to the police and seek help, to then be turned away so many times and to be denied justice, denied support, it takes its toll. we'll hear more from fern champion at 9.15. and lessons in knife crime — that's what secondary school pupils in england are getting this week to try to stop them carrying a knife during the summer holidays. hello. welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. lancashire, merseyside, cheshire, greater manchester and parts of cumbria — if you live there — tell us what you think about the hosepipe ban. we want to talk to you on the programme in the next hour — so send us an email with your details on and what you think and we'll get back to you. they'll fine you if you brea

he raped her and then drove her home. she told her roommeats what happened and called police. >>> in may, a woman left the bar around 1:00 a.m. she says he drove her to a secluded location where he got into the backseat and threatened her with a notify and raped her. afterward, he also drove her home. then if june, the 49 victim left temple bar around 2 1:00 a.m. she fell asleep in his car and woke up thinking her hands were wet. she realizeed he was in the backseat with her and the wetness on her hands was her own blood. she had been trying to fend off the knife with her hands. he assaulted her and tried to rape her, put she was able to open the car's door and run away. she found a house that looked safe and people there took her in and called police. he faces 12 felonies includeing the rapes of those four women kidnapping thee of them and threatening with a deadly weapon. he will be back in court tomorrow for his arraignment and now police doive believe there could be other victims. he is an illegal immigrant from peru

and the invisible children of the bosnian war they were born to mothers raped during the conflict of the early one nine hundred ninety s. no one wanted to acknowledge them then now they're fighting for their rights. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring thanks for joining us turkey has lifted its state of emergency which was introduced two years ago after a failed coup that left hundreds dead turkish president richard try about the one used to measure to rule by decree and crackdown on. in the opposition tens of thousands of people were purged from the military and from the civil service and hundreds of politicians and journalists were also arrested although the government has now opted not to extend that emergency rule it's proposing a stringent antiterrorism bill to replace it. and for more we're going to cross now to istanbul to our correspondent there dorian jones door in the state of emergency is lifted opposition parties though say that this new legislation that president ed one is putting in place effectively makes the state of emergency permanent did they have a poi

be getting better at processing rape kits... that's according to a new report. the report is required by the state because of the large number of backlogged rape cases across california. starting this year... all rape kits must be tracked and delivered to the crime lab within five days. so far this year... 6 kits have not met that requirement... however that number is down from the last six months of 2017 when 15 kits did not make it to the crime lab within 5 days. so far this year... the number of d-n-a matches made in rape cases has increased by 8%. ( james ) coming up on the kron 4 morning news... an east bay city is making a push for more affordable housing. we'll tell you how its being done. ( james ) plus...a bay area city starts a new push to help the homeless in their community. we'll show you what's being done. ( james ) and... package thieves captured on camera in one east bay neighborhood. the steps homeowners are taking to protect their stuff. ( john ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. ♪ when i first came to

he began kissing her but he raped her.olent encounters just this year. two of them picked up outside temple nightclub ending with the defendant raping the women at knifepoint one victim escaping and running to a nearby home for help. >> mr. vilchez lazo has pled not guilty. he maintained his innocence and the constitution entitles him to the presumption of innocence and his day in court. we want to

. >>> reporter: the rapes attached to orlando lazo began november 2013. vilchez lazo picked up a woman at a bar in the mission. she was drunk and fell asleep in his car. she woke up in a parking lot near warehouses and told him this wasn't where she wanted to go. he kissed her and then raped her. after the attack, get to back behind the wheel. the woman told him if he took her home, she wouldn't say anything. he took her home. she went to the hospital and filed a police report. that's where the trail goes cold until february of this year. >> what happened to women in those five years, if he wasn't gone or wasn't arrested, he may have had multiple victims. we don't know how many victims we have had so far. >> reporter: in february a woman drinking with friends in soma decided to go home leaving temple bar at midnight. vilchez lazo aggravatedly drove her to a secluded area, got into the back seat and raped her, then drove her home. she told her roommates and then called police. >> this guy, if he wasn't caught, i think he would continue to be a danger to th

the department of justice percent of rape claims are not true.n her case there is grave doubt. -- theversity found that officials in new york city, the university after doing a review found she had not been raped. the man she accused was able to provide facebook messages she had sent him after the suppose ,t rape that said she loved him and i miss you, and we need some time together, so on and so forth. brian: but she took this mattress everywhere she went. mona: and that became a cultural meme. mattresses showed up on other campuses, too. the new york times wrote about it and she was declared to be kind of the joan of arc of campus rape for a while. you don't hear much about her anymore, especially because the man she accused won his case against columbia. columbia apologized for the way he was treated. brian: why would columbia university, a well-known ivy league school, allow somebody to carry a mattress? mona: it was fashionable, i guess. as --anted to be seen they are terrified of being accused of not handling these accusations with enough s

rapes took place in this. place for children actually for play it was about two o'clock in the night the under aged woman. who was brutally raped by three asperity and. there was horror stories we move first in the city about what they did to her and i would not repeat them but there was very graphic details about this rape and one of the policeman said that he had never experienced anything like this before this night and i've never seen anything like it. sweden doesn't collect data on the background of criminals in the country and speaking out against migrants is a big taboo here that's why journalists and bloggers who are not afraid to do something and speak their mind are becoming more popular hate welcome to sweden this is the number one rape capital of europe just swedes are the most self-loading people on the entire globe but i have never come across a country where nationalism is one of the biggest taboo stu point where it's considered to be racist it's gotten worse in every way that we probably have b