Sexual Assault

CMPD Police Chief Johnny Jennings was vocal about the Mecklenburg County bond system after the recent arrest.

A jury ruled Friday that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools did not violate the Title IX civil rights of a former Myers Park High student who said the school system didn't protect her after a 2015 sexual assault.

Actor Anthony Rapp says he was a victim of assault and battery. Rapp says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.

Current and former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students and their supporters banded together in Park Road Park on Saturday with a message for the school district: enact deeper, broader reforms protecting students from sexual assault, or risk seeing more students harmed on CMS campuses.

Part of Tuesday night's Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board meeting included a presentation on the district’s Title IX policies and procedures.

The number of sexual assaults reported to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has risen 42% this year compared with this time in 2020, the police department said Wednesday. The increase is largely driven by an rise in cases involving minors.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say there has been a rise in the number of reported sexual assaults on children this year.

South Carolina is struggling with a problem that exists nationwide — a backlog of rape kits, which are part of an exam used to collect forensic evidence…

A man arrested Monday for a sexual assault in South End over the weekend has been charged in a second sexual assault case in the same area one day…

GREENSBORO — North Carolina's governor has signed a sexual assault bill which says women can revoke consent during sex.Gov. Roy Cooper said in a news…