Empowering Voices, Ensuring Justice: Insights and Updates on Sexual Abuse Legal Battles
A western Pennsylvania podiatrist is charged with sexual extortion and indecent assault for allegedly having had inappropriate sexual contact with a longtime patient for years.
Joshua Armstrong, a Fontana Unified School District Teacher from Jurupa Hills High School and track coach at Redlands Citrus Valley High School has been arrested on a charge of contacting a minor to commit a sex crime, according to the Fontana Police Department. Authorities accuse Armstrong of exchanging text messages of a sexual nature with a 17-year-old female student. The explicit text messages were over a three-month period from September 2021 to December 2021.
Despite a number of policies and rules passed to prevent hazing at schools, colleges and universities, it is still a prevalent problem. Sadly, many incidents of hazing – including sexual hazing – go unreported.
Acadia resident Marco Antonio Flores (25), a swim coach at Max Aquatics, was arrested for violations of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, lewd and lascivious acts involving children, and other sex crimes.
Sexual assault is the crime of touching another person’s private parts without that person’s consent, either with or without the use of force.
Amanda Hubble, a music teacher, was arrested Saturday, December 4, 2021, and booked by Clovis police on suspicion of two counts of unlawful intercourse and one count of oral copulation with a minor.
Someone can abuse or harass another person in many different ways. The legal definition of sexual abuse is not only restricted to physical touching.
Class actions are common in sexual abuse and assault lawsuits, especially against institutions such as schools and churches. A class action permits one or more plaintiffs to file a civil lawsuit on behalf of a larger group of plaintiffs, or a “class.” Class actions eliminate redundancies by allowing multiple plaintiffs to file a single lawsuit against a defendant for similar injuries. Although a class action may seem like the simplest way to bring a sexual assault civil lawsuit, it is actually a dangerous practice that can block survivors from achieving justice in multiple ways.
Over one-third of the US workforce is bound by non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). NDAs can be detrimental to victims of sexual abuse and assault by prohibiting them from talking about sexual misconduct.
One of the most important laws to know if you are someone who wants to file a sexual abuse or sexual assault lawsuit is the statute of limitations. A statute of limitations is a time period when someone must file a lawsuit against another person.
