Sentences with phrase «adult victims of sexual assault»

One group of users who require special attention are vulnerable witnesses, especially child witnesses and adult victims of sexual assault.

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Sen. Brad Hoylman, the sponsor of a bill to make it easier for child sexual assault victims to seek justice as adults, is pushing for a state Senate hearing on the issue.

The Special Victim's Bureau of the Oneida County District Attorney's Office is responsible for prosecuting cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault of adults and children, and serious physical abuse and homicides of children.

Gipson notes the law would give judges the discretion to allow facility dogs for not only child abuse victims, but for any victim or witness of a violent crime or sexual assault, as well any children or adults impaired in any way, on the defense or prosecution side.

Most of them do not allow minors to sign up, but even in those cases there have been numerous incidents where minors signed up as adults and ended up the victims of sexual assaults.

I deal with women's issues, life transitions, depression and anxiety problems, adult / teen / child childhood abuse survivors, rape / sexual assault, child sexual abuse, incest, victims of violent crimes, suicide / homicide survivors, and other trauma related concerns.

Counsels: adolescents, adults, women, individuals, groups and families Areas of Interest: grief, loss, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, parenting, adoption, sexual assault survivors, domestic violence victims, eating disorders

More that four in ten Aboriginal women in prison were victims of sexual assault as an adult (44 %).

The intended age group for the room is three to 12, as half of the sexual assault victims it helps are under the age of 18, while many more of its adult clients were also sexually abused as a child.