Persons being forced to rape is a phenomenon researched in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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.[4] Among acts of sexual violence in the Tigray WarinEthiopia and Eritrea has been reported cases of men and boys being forced to rape their family members under threats of violence or death.[5][6]
In 2014 in Prince George's County, Maryland, 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. An investigation revealed that it was the woman's ex-husband who had orchestrated the events. Brian Frosh and Kathleen Dumais of The Baltimore Sun 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".[7] 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".[8]
^Frosh, Brian; Dumais, Kathleen (February 3, 2014). "Bill targets 'rape by proxy'". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 5 April 2021. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
Mardorossian, Carine M. (May 13, 2014). "5. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Diasporic Women's Fiction". Framing the Rape Victim. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN9780813566047.
