Articles Tagged: sexual assault

Payment for nearly 70 sexual assault survivors’ emergency contraception is on hold as Iowa’s Republican Attorney General reviews use of funds.

Victim advocates are urging Republican Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird to continue allowing the state’s victim compensation funds to cover contraception and abortion care for rape victims, noting a majority of those served by the fund are juvenile victims of sexual abuse.

A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a hospital in Ottumwa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated, hospital and police officials said.

Reported crimes tied to social interaction jumped at the University of Iowa last year, with rape reports surging to 64 in 2021 from 38 in 2020, 50 in 2019, and 22 in 2015.

Donations are pouring in to help a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.

Also, sexual assault training offered to doctors, others

Lily Rose Lee, formerly known as Michelle Knight, will be speaking at an event in Cedar Rapids meant to raise awareness and support for survivors of sexual assault. A Gazette reporter recently spoke with Lee about the upcoming event and her life as a kidnapping survivor.

Project to test evidence has led to four criminal cases in Iowa so far, authorities say

Marion man accused of dragging a neighbor by her hair into her bedroom and sexually assaulting her. He also hit, kicked and strangled her to the point of unconsciousness when she told him to stop.

Bipartisan letter expresses disappointment with the Pentagon’s proposed timeline for implementing measures to combat sexual assault in the military.

Sex offender Fitsum Russell has history of sex crimes in Linn, Johnson counties

Judge sentences a Cedar Rapids man to 34 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman who was incapacitated as he repeatedly assaulted her and filmed the crimes.

A quarter of the female University of Iowa students who in spring 2021 responded to the institution’s third iteration of a survey examining sexual misconduct on campus said they’ve experienced some type of sexual violence since enrolling.

Protesters demanding University of Iowa administrators kick the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity off campus took to the streets again Wednesday night – this time avoiding vandalism and sticking to chants, marching, and signs carrying the message they won’t stand for sexual violence.

She comes at the issue from a singular vantage point