April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month!

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center commemorates the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month with a focus this year on, ‘Building Connected Communities,’ a campaign uplifts the role of inclusive, equitable, and connected communities in reducing sexual abuse, assault, and harassment.

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April is Also Child Abuse Prevention Month!

For this year’s Child Abuse Prevention Month awareness and impact campaign, preventchildabuse.org acknowledges the crucial connection between a happy childhood and a hopeful future for every child and recommit to working together to ensure all children and families have the resources and support they need to reach their full potential.

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Delta Airlines Sued Over Sexual Assault of Sleeping Passenger by Airline Mechanic

Duane Brick, 53, pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact and now faces up to 2 years in prison after admitting that during the flight from Phoenix to Seattle, he had not only taken the victim's hand and placed it on his crotch, but that also reached under her shirt and groped her breast while she appeared to be asleep.

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An Unsuspecting Case of Grooming: An 82-Year-Old Florida Man Arrested for Sexually Abusing a Child Under 12-Years-Old After Befriending Parents

The defendant allegedly befriended the child’s parents, who trusted him to be around the child because he was helping the parents out, but the parents began noticing that the child was becoming withdrawn, isolated, and began gaining weight, even though there were no physical marks, and the child did not initially report.

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Parents Sue PA School District of Failing to Report the Sexual Assault of Their 5-Year-Old on the School Bus

The parents of an elementary school student in the Red Lion School District of Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit accusing the district of not reporting the sexual assault of a 5-year-old on a school bus to ChildLine and for failing to put the children on different buses, despite having knowledge of the alleged incident.

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Wife of CT Man Who Was arrested for 11 Years of Sexual Assaults of Their Foster Child Has Been Arrested

Police in Bristol, Connecticut, have arrested the wife of Roger Barriault, the man charged with first-degree sexual assault for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl in their care from age 9-20, over 3,000 times, and impregnating her.

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Former Boy Scott Employee Gets 75 Days in Jail for Sexually Abusing a Child

A 28-year-old employee of Boy Scouts of America pled guilty to first-degree attempted sexual abuse of a child, and now faces 75 days in jail, 60 months supervised probation, no contact with minors, required yearly sex offender registration, and additional fines and fees.

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Rape Survivor Fights to Extend Statute of Limitations in Tennessee for Civil Sexual Assault Cases

A sexual assault survivor in Tennessee has introduced a bill to extend the state’s short 1-year statute of limitations to at least 3 years, which would equal the statute length for criminal cases.

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