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The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is an American nonprofit anti-sexual assault organization, the largest in the United States. [4] RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, as well as the Department of Defense Safe Helpline, and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice through victim services ...
Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFE) are medical providers who have received special training to conduct sexual assault evidentiary exams for rape survivors. Historically these providers were nurses and referred to as SANEs ( Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners ), but nowadays it is recognized that physicians and physician assistants may perform ...
The Hacienda HealthCare sexual abuse case was a high-profile sexual abuse case involving an incapacitated disabled woman who was raped many times and impregnated by a licensed practical nurse at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Although the investigation took place in 2021, the sexual abuse was long term, and ...
The 186-page suit, filed in the Illinois Court of Claims, alleges state employees “sexually abused Claimants and/or negligently allowed or failed to prevent sexual abuse of Claimants while they ...
SANEs are on call 24-hours a day and may arrive at the hospital ED within an hour of a sexual assault victim's arrival. Some programs will wait until the patient has had a medical screening exam (MSE) and subsequently have law enforcement bring a stable patient to the sexual assault response team (SART) site for their exam. If the patient is in ...
A jury acquitted Dykas of attempted first-degree sexual assault but found him guilty of attempted armed robbery. The National Sexual Assault Hotline can be reached 1-800-656-4673 and a list of ...
A push is underway to implement the full decriminalization of sex work in Illinois and strengthen protections for sex workers in the state. Members of the Sex Worker Advisory Group, or SWAG, said ...
Sexual harassment in the workplace in US labor law has been considered a form of discrimination on the basis of sex in the United States since the mid-1970s. [1] [2] There are two forms of sexual harassment recognized by United States law: quid pro quo sexual harassment (requiring an employee to tolerate sexual harassment to keep their job, receive a tangible benefit, or avoid punishment) and ...