Sexual Assault

Nearly 90% of cases the Crime Victim Center assists with deal with domestic violence.

Missouri Businesses Now Must Grant Unpaid Leave For Survivors Of Domestic Or Sexual Violence

Corinne Ruff

Businesses with more than 20 employees must provide up to two weeks of unpaid time off for survivors of domestic or sexual violence under a state law.

Kathy Howard shows what a rape kit looks like once it has been used and sealed. Sept. 27, 2019

Government, Politics & Issues

Missouri Begins Testing Backlog Of More Than 7,000 Rape Kits

Jaclyn Driscoll

Roughly 100 of Missouri’s 7,019 untested rape kits have been sent out of state to a private forensic lab for testing.The state completed a full inventory…

Kathy Howard, who has worked as a sexual assault nurse examiner for decades, shows an unused rape kit. Sept. 27, 2019

Government, Politics & Issues

After Years Collecting Dust, Missouri's Untested Rape Kits Are Getting Sorted Out

Jaclyn Driscoll

Missouri has more than 10,000 untested rape kits sitting on shelves in police departments and hospitals — some have been there for decades — but the state…

A former Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville student is suing the college for its handling of her on-campus sexual assault claim while she was a senior in October 2017.

Education

Former SIUE student sues college over its investigation of a sexual assault

Ryan Delaney

A recent graduate of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville is suing the school over the way it handled her allegation that another student sexually…

UMSL’s Title IX coordinator and chief equity officer, Dana Beteet Daniels (at left), and local attorney Nicole Gorovsky, an advocate for victims of sexual abuse, participated in Wednesday’s discussion.

Education

Area universities grapple with increased attention to Title IX in light of Michigan State, #MeToo

Evie Hemphill

While the U.S. Department of Education’s Title IX statute has been around since 1972, there’s renewed societal focus on issues related to sexual assault…

Health, Science & Environment

New rape-kit rules intend to eliminate confusion, backlog for survivors

Sarah Fentem

A new Missouri law orders the state to create guidelines for testing, processing and storing rape kits, which collect DNA evidence from victims of sexual…

Illinois Could Get More Nurses Trained To Help Sexual Assault Survivors

Mary Cullen

A measure that has passed the Illinois House would require hospitals to have Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) who can treat and examine victims of...

The City of Clayton has apologized to the 10 black Washington University students involved in the July 7 incident.

Government, Politics & Issues

Students demand Wash U do more to investigate, prevent sexual assaults

Kae M. Petrin

Nearly a quarter of female undergraduates at Washington University in St. Louis experienced sexual assault after they entered the college, a 2015 estimate…

Alderwoman Megan Green (left) and Sarah Durrett (right) talk about local efforts to prevent sexual harassment and assult.

Government, Politics & Issues

St. Louis Alderwoman Megan Green shares personal experience, efforts of preventing sexual assault

Lara Hamdan

With the recent wave of sexual misconduct allegations sweeping the nation, we went Behind the Headlines to discuss the sexual harassment and assault on…

A rape kit (pictured) is used to collect evidence after a sexual assault. How well the kit is completed matters in a prosecution.

For Rape Survivors, Specially-Trained Nurses Offer A Bridge To Justice

Esther Honig

Four years ago, Cait Hogan woke up in her bed on a Sunday morning after a night of drinking in the small college town of Athens, Ohio. Her entire body...