rape tree

Noun

 * 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.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 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.