sexual assault

Since 2014, sexual assault investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights are up nearly 500 percent in elementary, middle and high schools across the country.

A 1979 state supreme court ruling said it's not rape if a person changes their mind during sex and their partner doesn't stop. A North Carolina lawmaker wants to make it a crime.

"This issue can affect any young person, especially young athletes of today," a spokesman for the comedian said. "They need to know what they're facing when they're hanging out and partying."

The attorney attempted to portray Cosby's relationship with Andrea Constand as a romantic one. The 79-year-old comic is charged with aggravated indecent assault, which could carry a 10-year sentence.

Andrea Constand described Cosby drugging and assaulting her at his home in 2004. "They're your friends. They'll take the edge off," Cosby allegedly told her while giving her the pills.

A third of the potential jurors say they've already formed opinions about Cosby's guilt or innocence. The case involves one of scores of sexual assault allegations against the comedian.

It's not the first time Baylor University football players have been accused of gang rape. The latest suit alleges that players gang-raped young women, and filmed it, as a hazing or bonding ritual.

Student athlete applicants with histories of domestic or sexual violence will no longer be eligible to play at IU.

Authorities say that about 40 people may have watched the rapes of a 15-year-old girl that were streamed on the social media platform — and that none of them reported the crimes.

The boy faces felony counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and manufacturing and dissemination of child pornography in connection with the attack on a 15-year-old Chicago girl.

During the trial, the judge told the young woman that "sex and pain sometimes go together ... that's not necessarily a bad thing."

An investigation by The Globe and Mail found that a fifth of reported rapes and assaults were dismissed as "unfounded," meaning baseless. Now police across the country are reviewing old cases.