Category: Sexual Abuse Cases

Hearing that someone close to you has been the victim of sexual abuse can bring up a range of emotions from anger to guilt. The important thing to remember is that if someone you care about has experienced sexual abuse, they need your support more than ever. The way that you respond can make a […]

Survivors of a sexual assault often experience overwhelming feelings of shame, embarrassment, guilt, anger, and depression. This emotional anguish far outlasts any physical wounds. One way that a sexual assault victim can begin to heal is to hold their assailant accountable. That means pursuing two possible paths for a remedy: criminal and civil. With either […]

The primary goal of a parent is to keep their child safe. Unfortunately, a parent can’t always watch over a child every minute of every day. Between the hours a child spends online or at school participating in extracurricular activities, there are a lot of times when their parents are not directly watching over the […]

A sexual assault is a violent crime with repercussions that can last a lifetime. The West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information (FRIS) presents tragic statistics that girls aged 16 to 19 are four times more likely to be victims of rape and “that 1 in 6 adult women will be the victim of an attempted […]

One of the most challenging matters that courts have to deal with is sexual abuse. That issue is especially compounded when the victims of that abuse are children. According to data collected by West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information and Services (FRIS), 64% of the victims of sexual abuse in the state are juveniles under […]

Sexual abuse of children is a pressing concern nationwide. According to the Child Maltreatment report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as many as 9.2% of our country’s youth may have been subjected to a sexual assault at some point in their young lives. Like most statistics, though, it’s likely that these […]

Most individuals, especially those employed outside the home, are likely familiar with the concept of sexual harassment. After all, many employers take time to write about it in their employee handbook. Others even go as far as offering training about this unlawful workplace behavior. However, while many employees may have heard of sexual harassment, they […]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are millions of individuals subjected to sexual violence each year in the U.S. Data compiled by the non-profit Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) suggests that at least 463,634 of those annual victims belong to the 12 and older age group. While the […]