Marital rape wasn't legal in 1963, Australia's highest court decides
(NEWSER) - Australia's highest court has decided that an elderly man should stand trial for allegedly raping his then-wife nearly 50 years ago. Lawyers for the man, who is now 81, unsuccessfully argued that marital rape was legal at the time of the alleged offense in 1963, saying that at the time, Australia was a "very unenlightened and socially backward country by modern standards," and the court should not apply today's values to the law as it stood at the time, the BBC reports. More»
