How to Support Someone Who Has Been Sexually Assaulted
What to say (and what not) and how to help someone who has survived sexual assault, including organizations that can help.
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What to say (and what not) and how to help someone who has survived sexual assault, including organizations that can help.
An Associated Press investigation found a CIA agent’s alleged assault last year happened just days after the CIA promised to crack down on sexual misconduct in its ranks.
As parents prepare to send their children off to college, there’s one statistic many parents don’t realize. There’s a 1 in 3 chance she will be sexually assaulted by the time she graduates. But there is hope from an unexpected source: lessons learned from tackling street crime.
A lawsuit was filed against the now-defunct Circle of Hope Girls Ranch and Boarding School in Humansville, MO by the youngest victim to sue the owners and founders, Stephanie and Boyd Householder.
Several Family Help & Wellness programs, including Elevations Youth Treatment Center in Utah, have run afoul of state regulations for failing to notify the state of critical incidents, such as those in which children were injured or allegedly abused, NBC News reported.
Ten states have no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest. A recent study estimated that around 65,000 pregnancies related to rape may have occurred in these states since Roe was overturned.
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas stepped down in June following the emergence of a sexual abuse scandal.
A recent study from Brown University suggests that the prevalence of sexual assault in the U.S. military may be two to four times higher than official estimates.
A lawsuit has been filed against two prominent Chicago hospitals, accusing Fabio Ortega, an OB-GYN, of sexually abusing over 300 women, primarily Latina and Spanish-speaking.