rape tree

English

Noun

rape tree (plural rape trees)

1. A tree or similar structure said to be used by smugglers near the U.S.–Mexico border to exhibit their sexual assaults by hanging victims' undergarments from the branches as trophies.
   • 2010, Thomas R. Meinders, A Beautiful America:

     A rape tree is what Mexican illegals create with the panties and bras of the women they have raped along the trail to America. After they have had their way with the women and young girls, they force them to hang their panties or bras, on the trees as a trophy or a sign of their conquest. […] [T]he Sonoran Desert encompasses 120,000 square miles in Arizona, California, and Mexico. That makes for a lot of rape trees that may never be discovered.

   • 2016, Maria Theresia Starzmann, John R. Roby, Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting, page 211:

     Some claim that sexual assault leaves a material trace of evidence: the so-called rape tree—a bush or tree with women's undergarments hanging from the branches.

Anagrams

• peartree, repartee, pear tree, rerepeat, repartée, repeater, Pear Tree