For marriage by abduction, see bride kidnapping.Ī marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. For rape within marriage, see Marital rape. This article is about rape before marriage.