sexual assault

After the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed that the experience was a triggering event that recalled the trauma of a past sexual assault. Sarah Klein, a survivor and advocate for sexual assault victims, joined LX News to explain how other survivors are helped when public figures like AOC speak out about their own trauma.

The host of the investigative true crime podcast “Evil by Design” has been on the trail of allegations against fashion mogul Peter Nygard for 10 years. In December, Nygard was arrested on charges of forced sex trafficking and trafficking of minors, among others. Host Timothy Sawa joined LX News to talk about his decade-long efforts to shed light on these allegations.

If you or someone you know is experiencing sexual violence, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline by calling 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), visit the lifeline crisis chat at www.online.rainn.org, or find your local rape crisis center at www.centers.rainn.org. After a rape, the first step toward a conviction — before evidence testing, charges and a trial — is a sexual assault forensic exam. Commonly...

The designer, 37, known best for his eponymous brand started in 2005, has been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by a model based in the U.K.

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed  to postpone efforts to send him to California to face sexual assault charges.

As Fort Hood’s commander, Lt. Gen. Pat White faces the immense task of rebuilding trust and turning around an installation with one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army.

Boston police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in the city’s Public Garden early Sunday. The Boston Police Department released an image of the suspect later Sunday, in hopes the public will be able to help identify him. He is described as an unknown male. Detectives say the suspect seen in...

DNA evidence helped authorities identify and arrest an Eastvale man suspected of raping a young woman more than two decades ago, police announced Friday.

Weeks before her disappearance, slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén told her mother that she had been sexually harassed at the Army base and was afraid to speak up because of what Gloria Guillen calls a culture that protects abusers in the military at the expense of victims like her daughter, NBC News reports.

More than 1,000 rape kits once sat on the shelves of police evidence rooms across the state. “They stemmed all the way back to the late 80s early 90s,” said state forensic biologist Kristin Sasinouski. Sasinouski serves as deputy director of the Connecticut Public Safety Forensics Laboratory. “There was no tracking system and so we didn’t even know that these…

More than a 1,000 rape kits once sat on the shelves of police evidence rooms across the state, but the backlog is gone and the kits are now tracked in real-time.

A Bridgeport police officer was arrested Friday on multiple counts of sexual assault, according to police. Police Chief Garcia said Sergeant Ivan Delgado was served an arrest warrant charging him with three counts of first degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. Delgado has been an officer with the Bridgeport Police Department for 13 years, according to…

The first six weeks of college are considered a “red zone” for incoming freshmen when it comes to sexual assault. According to research by the U.S. Department of Justice, the first month and a half of college is the time when freshmen women are most likely to be raped or experience attempted rape. Connecticut’s legislature is looking to pass...

Connecticut legislators hope to move a bill forward that will help make it easier for victims of sexual assault on college campuses easier to report.

A 12-year old girl reported that she had been the victim of rape in the rear of a livery cab on Monday, and police arrested the suspect the next day. The NYPD took 32-year-old Rafael Martinez into custody Tuesday night for allegedly sexually assaulting the young girl after he picked her up in Brooklyn. Police say the victim’s parents...

A federal judge is allowing the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to sexual assault complaints.

The New York Times looks looks back at Antioch College’s groundbreaking first affirmative consent policy for sex which was ridiculed 25 years ago but is now considered groundbreaking in the #MeToo movement.

If calls to “defund the police” and divert funds to nonpolicing efforts are successful, what happens to rapists and sex offenders?

On Friday morning, a Twitter user who goes by the name Gabby posted a message to her followers where she shared “my story” with the Hollywood actor. In her post that has since gone private, Gabby claims the 26-year-old actor “sexually assaulted me when I was 17. I had DMed him on when it was two days before my 17th...

 “I think without forensic genealogy everyone would agree that the case probably would have went unsolved,” said Kristin Sasinouski, deputy director of Forensic Biology & DNA at the Division of Scientific Services. For nearly two decades, forensic scientists at the state’s crime lab have been trying to help police identify the person responsible for a series of rapes that...