sexual assault

Assault, robbery and rape have long been a grim risk of migrant journeys around the globe. But aid groups working in the Darién Gap say that in the past six months they have documented an extraordinary spike in attacks, with patterns and frequencies rarely seen outside of war zones.

The Nancy J. Cotterman Center is named after a longtime former employee of the Broward Sexual Assault Treatment center. It was housed in Fort Lauderdale until this year — although plans for a new center started in 2004. Its new home is in Oakland Park.

The defense bill provision could move military one step closer to historic changes that will impact how its sexual assault cases are prosecuted. On Thursday, the House passed the bill, 350-80.

The suspension comes after reports of several students drugged between September and November and a sexual assault reported over the weekend.

The Justice Department report urges an overhaul in the way the Bureau of Prisons works to prevent and investigate sexual abuse by prison employees against women in their custody.

On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, President Biden is expected to announce new rules governing the protection of sexual assault and harassment accusers in education.

The group of women and girls say the bureau failed to properly follow up on credible claims against the sports doctor Larry Nassar in 2015, which allowed him to continue abusing victims.

The deputy attorney general told Congress last year that prosecutors would review new evidence about FBI failures in the investigation of Larry Nassar.

A local Imam joins us to talk about how Ramadan will be different this year. Florida International University is training more sexual assault nurse examiners. How has that program been working out? Plus, a woman who is devoting her life to teaching the art of writing to people who are incarcerated.

The "rape loophole" bill would increase the penalty for raping a woman while intoxicated to a first-degree felony with up to a 30-year prison sentence, up from a second-degree felony and as many as 15 years in prison.

A Florida lawmaker and childhood sexual abuse survivor is pushing back on a measure that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks. She says without exemptions for rape, incest and human trafficking survivors, the measure puts people who have suffered trauma under the added pressure of a difficult deadline.

Joel Quenneville, the second-winningest coach in NHL history, resigned Thursday after an investigation commissioned by his former club, the Chicago Blackhawks, said he failed to follow up on sexual assault allegations against another coach with the Stanley Cup-winning team in 2010.