Sexual assault is an act of sexual abuse in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically...

United States, Tara Reade alleged that Democratic nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 in a Capitol Hill office building when she was a staff...

Campus sexual assault is the sexual assault, including rape, of a student while attending an institution of higher learning, such as a college or university...

Mass sexual assault is the collective sexual assault of women, men and sometimes children, in public by groups. Typically acting under the protective...

the political spectrum. Donald Trump has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at...

The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case began on July 18, 2003, when the news media reported that the sheriff's office in Eagle, Colorado, had arrested then-professional...

punishments for aggravated sexual assault and aggravated rape vary by country and by legislature within a country. Aggravated sexual assault can lead to short-...

allegations emerged that Bill Cosby, an American media personality, had sexually assaulted dozens of women throughout his career. Cosby was well known in the...

preserving physical evidence following an instance or allegation of sexual assault. The evidence collected from the victim can aid the criminal rape investigation...

highest incidence of sexual assaults. 21.90% of child respondents faced severe forms of sexual abuse, 5.69% had been sexually assaulted and 50.76% reported...

The Taylor Swift sexual assault trial was a legal case held in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The trial involved David...

felony sexual assault. On January 18, 2015, on the Stanford University campus, Turner, then a 19-year-old student athlete at Stanford, sexually assaulted 22-year-old...

Sexual assault in the United States armed forces is an ongoing issue which has received extensive media coverage in the past. A 2012 Pentagon survey found...

the subject of sexual assault investigations by police fifteen times since 1989. In 2022, Police were investigating three sexual assault allegations that...

The mass sexual assault of women in public has been documented in Egypt since 2005, when Egyptian security forces and their agents were accused of using...

American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist...

behaved as asserted. On September 9, 2020, Rapp sued Spacey for sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress under...

another. Sexual abuse is a term used for a persistent pattern of sexual assaults. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser. Live streaming sexual abuse...

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without their consent...

accused the American film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse over a period of at least 30 years. Over 80 women in the...

initially used in this context on social media in 2006, on Myspace, by sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana Burke. The hashtag #MeToo was used starting...

Baylor University sexual assault scandal was the result of numerous allegations of and convictions for sexual and non-sexual assaults committed by Baylor...

penetration with a penis, whereas penetration with a finger can be "sexual assault by penetration". Lesbian women often clip their nails in a particular...

Research focusing specifically on gender relations within the context of sexual assault have found that conformance to notions of male entitlement, suspicion...

for the first time, statutory rights in federal code for survivors of sexual assault and rape. The law impacts nearly 25 million estimated rape survivors...

in Germany, approximately 1,200 women were reported to have been sexually assaulted, especially in the city of Cologne. In many of the incidents, while...

societal basis of morality, sexual harassment and/or criminal sexual assault. However generally, from a purely legal standpoint, sexual misconduct is a "lay...

harm and aggravated assault. Separate charges typically exist for sexual assaults, affray and assaulting a police officer. Assault may overlap with an...

all sexual assaults including rape was 0.1% (annual prevalence rate represents the number of victims each year, rather than the number of assaults since...

Sexual assault of LGBT people, also known as sexual and gender minorities (SGM), is a form of violence that occurs within the LGBT community. While sexual...