The sentence almost does not matter when it comes to sexual assault charges. If you are convicted of sexual assault, you will be on the state’s sex offender registry, likely for the rest of your life. Given that being on the sex offender registry can have all manner of negative impacts on your ability to…
If you have been charged with sexual assault in Texas, you could be in a world of trouble. Texas law takes sexual assault seriously and provides for penalties that reflect that. Sexual assault in Texas is always a felony. Depending upon what class of felony you are charged with, you could be looking at up…
When reports first surfaced that Bill Cosby was facing charges of sexual assault, millions of people who had grown up watching Cosby on TV were shocked. He had a reputation for providing wholesome entertainment, whether as Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show (arguably the most likable of TV dads of the 80s) or from Picture…
If you find out that a minor has been a victim of sexual abuse, you have a duty to report the crime. Not only should you do it out of moral obligation to protect young people from sexual abuse, but you can actually be subject to criminal penalties if you do not. This month, the…
If a guest at a party you are attending says that he or she is a lawyer, what do you imagine? You probably imagine that person wearing a suit, making eloquent speeches in a courtroom to establish reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors about whether his or her client is guilty of the charges…
This week’s news items serve as a reminder that sexual assault can happen to anyone, at any age, anywhere. It includes reports of sexual abuse that took place in fraternity houses and in immigrant detention centers, among other places. Additionally, people charged with sexual assault do not fit into a narrow group; despite the media…
The stereotype of a sex offender is a “dirty old man” who sexually harasses women or molests children, but in reality, sexual assault takes many forms. Many survivors of childhood sexual abuse were abused by someone younger than 18. If you ask sexual abuse survivors whose abusers were also minors at the time the abuse…
Sexual abuse of minors causes emotional trauma that lasts for many years. One aspect of the emotional trauma of sexual abuse is that, even when the abuse continues for a long time, the adults in the victim’s life do not always try to intervene to stop the abuse, either because they do not know with…
The difference between simple sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault is that the latter causes serious bodily injury to the victim. The 2013 attack for which Pfc. Levi Austin Goss is accused is one of the more horrific sexual assaults to make headlines in recent memory. Goss is currently awaiting extradition to Texas from North…
Lawyers who work with sexual assault cases know that there is a lot more variation in sexual assault cases than just the stereotypical view that you often see on TV. Thanks to awareness campaigns, most people now know that not all sexual assaults take place when a woman is walking outside alone at night and…
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