Information and opinion pieces on sexual assault issues. To submit a story for the news section please use the Contact ICASA form.
2/17/2004
Children accused more than 4,000 priests of sexual abuse in the years between 1950 and 2002, according to a draft report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
|
4/1/2004
Report on the nature and scope of sexual abuse of minors by priests and deacons.
|
5/10/2004
Information continues to be discovered about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by United States military guards.
|
6/24/2004
In a 6-1 decision, the Illinois Supremem Court solidified the state`s rape shield law.
|
9/2/2004
Statement from Kobe Bryant apologizing to the victim.
|
9/8/2004
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is establishing a task force to track down the nearly 400 sex offenders that have been lost in the sex offender registry.
|
10/1/2004
Investigators are making progress in tracking down sex offenders who have failed to register with the state system.
|
10/1/2004
A Chicago police officer has been accused of raping a woman after detaining her on suspicion of prostitution.
|
|
|
10/28/2004
Talk show host Bill O`Reilly settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by his former assistant on his television show.
|
11/14/2004
Series of articles exploring the sexual abuse at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Hannibal, Mo.
|
11/24/2004
A jury awarded a former waitress at a Chicagoland Hooters $275,000 in damages for sexual harassment and other damages.
|
11/24/2004
The former girls` basketball coach at Hinsdale Central High School is facing another sexual abuse charges and police are unhappy with the actions of school administrators in the case.
|
12/3/2004
The Diocese of Orange in Southern California and 87 victims of clergy sexual abuse announced a settlement in what sources say will be the largest payout in the history of the Catholic Church abuse scandal.
|
12/6/2004
Calvin Murphy was acquitted of charges he molested five of his daughters.
|
12/8/2004
A Pentegon report says that successive commanders at the Air Force Academy failed over the course of a decade to acknowledge the seriousness of sexual assault and harassment at the Colorado Springs campus.
|
12/14/2004
Former sex slaves at a brothel in India discuss their lives in a new documentary.
|
12/27/2004
A comparison of DNA test results has shown that more than one man carried out serial sexual assaults during December in Wrigleyville and Lincoln Park, Chicago police said.
|
12/29/2004
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan unveiled a new strategy to keep better check on sex offenders listed in the state registry.
|