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Person passed out on a sidewalk in New York City, 2008. In jurisprudence, unconsciousness may entitle the criminal defendant to the defense of automatism, i.e. a state without control of one's own actions, an excusing condition that allows a defendant to argue that they should not be held criminally liable for their actions or omissions.
A prisoner at Abu Ghraib shows fear of a U.S. army dog during prisoner abuse. Psychological torture, mental torture or emotional torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects and only secondarily on any physical harm inflicted. Although not all psychological torture involves the use of physical violence, there is a ...
A cheetah strangling an impala, Timbavati Game Reserve, South Africa. Strangling or strangulation is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain by restricting the flow of oxygen through the trachea. [1]
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without their consent.The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age ...
A disgraced CIA officer who drugged and sexually abused “numerous women in multiple countries” over 14 years and was found with over 500 disturbing images and videos of his victims was ...
Women who had been abused by an intimate partner reported higher rates of strangulation. [10] [11] Strangulation is sometimes fatal. According to a large U.S. case control study, prior strangulation is a substantial and unique predictor of attempted and completed homicide of women by a male intimate partner.
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She adds: “You’re compromised in all the other ways you would be if you were not all there,” meaning not conscious. “It’s like you're on automatic pilot.