:: charged with aggravated rape ::
And the English language dies ANOTHER death.
It ain’t “rape” in any form...
By the description, the charge ^should^ have been “aggravated assault and sodomy by device”.
Sexual assaults (within the west) are not near as common as they were in earlier centuries. Not even if you throw in the nastiness during the second World War.
There is no need for the commonly used language to retain terms for differentiating all the different types of sexual assault. It doesn’t comepup that often outside of the courtroom.
No, actually, the charges must track the statute. Look for the definition in the statute and see if the charges are correctly drafted.