California official urges change in law to stop rape by impersonators

Updated January 6 2013 - 4:08pm, first published 3:37pm

A Californian man has had his rape conviction overturned because of an obscure, 19th-century law that fails to protect unmarried women when a rapist impersonates a lover.

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