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Definitions for sexual assault
sex·ual as·sault

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offensenoun

    a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat

    "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"

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  1. sexual assault

    Sexual assault is any type of forced or coerced sexual activity or contact against a person's will or without their explicit consent. It includes any non-consensual acts such as rape, attempted rape, molestation, sexual harassment, unwanted sexual touching or fondling, or any other form of sexual violence. It is a criminal act that impacts individuals regardless of age, gender, race, sexuality or social status. Sexual assault is a violation of a person's autonomy and personal integrity.

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  1. Sexual assault

    Sexual assault is any involuntary sexual act in which a person is threatened, coerced, or forced to engage against their will, or any sexual touching of a person who has not consented. This includes rape, inappropriate touching, forced kissing, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the victim in a sexual manner. In legal terms, sexual assault is a statutory offence in various jurisdictions, including United States, Canada, England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. The legal definition of the crime of sexual assault is determined by each jurisdiction. Specific legal jurisdictions and research often use highly technical or detailed definitions of the term. In some places, such as New South Wales, the crime of sexual assault has replaced the traditional crime of rape, and is being defined as non-consensual penetrative sex. By contrast, in other jurisdictions, the crime deals with non-penetrative sexual contact.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sexual assault in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sexual assault in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sexual assault in a Sentence

  1. Victoria Valentino:

    Rape victims, sexual assault victims were victimized by the system.

  2. Kym Worthy:

    It has been almost a decade since the Detroit kits were found and this treatise made my blood boil. I am more outraged, infuriated, and incensed than I was then, the next person that knowingly destroys a sexual assault kit needs to go to jail. I do not know how anyone that claims to be human can continue to ignore this issue in this country after reading this truth.

  3. Andrew McCarthy:

    I don't believe Cuomo would pardon himself, because the groping crime he’s under investigation for in the Commission complaint is (a) considered a misdemeanor and not very serious (i.e., it’s not considered felony sexual assault), and (b) he has vigorously denied the allegation and a pardon would be tantamount to a confession of guilt.

  4. Cynthia Struckman-Johnson:

    They're physically forced or forced through blackmail to engage in sex, to have someone say this is chosen is just showing such great disregard for what we know about the world of sexual assault in prison.

  5. Ron DeSantis:

    In this instance you’ve had people for years and years who have been arrested on very, very serious offenses – sexual assault, homicides – and then if they get bail, that information is not provided to ICE so that we can track and identify these people, had you just notified ICE and then had ICE enforce the law, those future crimes would not have been committed.


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  • الاعتداء الجنسيArabic
  • جنسی حملہUrdu

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