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Economic abuse can occur across all socio-economic levels. [75] The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in the United States reports that: 25% - 50% of victims of abuse from a partner have lost their job due to domestic violence. 35% - 56% of victims of domestic violence are harassed at work by their partners.
Women who had children by age 21 were twice as likely to be victims of intimate partner violence as women who were not mothers at that age. Men who had children by age 21 were more than three times as likely to be people who abuse compared to men who were not fathers at that age. Many male abusers are also substance abusers.
Domestic violence against a pregnant woman can also affect the fetus and can have lingering effects on the child after birth. Physical abuse is associated with neonatal death (1.5% versus 0.2%), and verbal abuse is associated with low birth weight (7.6% versus 5.1%). [27]
It said many instances of abuse took place during unlawful strip searches. Children were as young as 11 when they were abused, according to the lawsuit, which seeks damages of more than $100,000 per plaintiff. Some of the 50 plaintiffs are seeking more damages in a third lawsuit filed Monday in the Illinois Court of Claims.
Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the state of Illinois and Cook County. 100+ new child sex abuse lawsuits ...
Sexual battery, as defined in Section 16-3-651(h), when accomplished through use of aggravated force, defined as the use or the threat of use of a weapon or the use or threat of use of physical force or physical violence of a high and aggravated nature, by one spouse against the other spouse if they are living together, constitutes the felony ...
The lawsuit details alleged incidents of abuse from 1996 to 2017, including gang rape, forced oral sex, beatings and groping of children by corrections officers, sergeants, nurses, therapists, a ...
Sexual abuse was particularly egregious in the Joliet detention center, according to the DOJ report.