YOUNG PEOPLE ASK -What Should I Know About Sexual Assault?

 Part 1: Precautions

What is sexual assault?

Though legal definitions differ from one place after another, the general term "sexual assault" can refer to unwanted sexual contact, sometimes involving  physical force.  It can involve such as things as child or teen sexual abuse, incest, rape, and sexual exploitation by a "helping professional-perhaps a doctor, a teacher, a member of the clergy.  Some victime whether assault verbally  or physically, are threatened with harm if they report what happened.

According to one survey, each year in the United States alone, almost a quarter of  a million people report being sexually assaulted. Nearly half of htem are between the ages of 12 and 18.

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