Consent: to voluntarily agree to what is done, or proposed by another under no threat or coercion

A person is UNABLE to give consent when:

• Under the age of 18 years old - In California 18 is the legal age of consent.
• Under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
• Unconscious.
• Developmentally disabled.

Consent Checklist:

If you've checked ANY of these,

YOU DID NOT GIVE YOUR CONSENT!

and may have been sexually assaulted.

Click here to learn more about your options and what you can do.

Types of Sexual Assault:

SEXUAL HARRASMENT

• VERBAL: Name calling, Rude Comments, Verbal Disrespect
• PHYSICAL: Touching, i.e.-butt smacking, bra snapping, groping
• VISUAL: Visually obscene images, photographs, drawings, body gestures

MOLESTATION
The sexual assault of a child by a non-family member

INCEST
Any inappropriate sexual behavior towards a family member.
For example, adult family member to child; sibling to sibling/cousin

RAPE
Rape is forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal or oral penetration. Penetration may be by a body part or an object.Rape victims may be forced through coercion, threats or physical means. In 80 % of rapes, no weapon is used other than physical force. Anyone may be a victim of rape: women, men or children, straight or gay.
Find out what to do if : YOU were raped or someone you know was raped

• Acquaintance: 80% of all rapes happen between people who know one another
• Spousal: 1 in 7 women are raped by their husband
• Stranger: Happens less than date and acquaintance rape
• Date Rape: Happens more than 50% of the time among teens

SEXUAL ASSAULT
Sexual Assault is unwanted sexual contact that stops short of rape or attempted rape. This includes sexual touching and fondling. (Some states use this term interchangeably with rape.)
Find out what to do if : YOU were sexually assaulted or someone you know was sexually assaulted

The following statistic categories are available:

Sexual Assault
One person is assaulted every 7.2 seconds.

93% of juvenile sexual assault victims knew their attacker; 34.2% were family members and 58.7% acquaintences. Only seven percent of the perpetrators were strangers to the victim.

How often it Happens One person is raped every 2.7 minutes.

Perpetrators
Contrary to the belief that rapists are strangers lurking in the shadows or driving a van around the parking garage, approximately two-thirds of all rapes were committed by someone known to the victim.

• 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger.
• 8% of perpetrators were a friend or acquaintance of the victim.
• 28% were an intimate.
• 7% were another relative.


Rape, Abuse. Incest National Network (RAINN)

Child/Teen Victimization
About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, 29% are age 12-17 and about 15% are under age 12.

Girls 16 to 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.

Children and teens rarely report incidents of abuse or assault. For every known case of child sexual abuse/assault, there are at least ten more that go unreported. In Sonoma County, there were 286 reported cases of sexual abuse.

Date Rape
A study of 1,000 female students indicated that 12% of unwanted sexual acts were perpetrated by casual dates and 43% by steady dating partners.

Teen/Young Adult Dating Violence
35 of every 1,000 women who attend colleges or universities experience an attempted or completed rape each year. This means that a campus with 10,000 female college students might expect that 350 of them would be raped during a single school year.

Cyber Space

• 1 in 7 minors, ages 10 to 17, received an unwanted sexual solicitation on-line and were exposed to sexual material.
• Only 5 % of these solicitations were reported to law enforcement, Internet service provider, or authorities.
  
  National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• 50 % of teens (13-18) have communicated online with someone they have never met.
• 30 % teens have talked about meeting in person someone they only know online.
• 1 in10 teens find out they were "talking" to an adult pretending to be much younger.
• 27 % teens talked about sex with someone they never met in person.
• Girls are more at risk than boys:
• Girls post more profiles than guys (56% vs 37%)
• Girls shared Personal Information (37% vs 26%)
• Girls have been asked more about sexual topics (33% vs 18%)
Polly Klaas Foundation