127 persons were taken to court and accused of rape between 2002 and last year, according to information given in Parliament.

Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici told Nationalist MP Franco Debono that of the cases decided so far, there had been 46 convictions.

The penalties included jail, suspended jail terms, probation and fines.

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