Sexual Assault

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…

A wide-ranging package of legislation reforming sexual assault laws passed both chambers of the NC General Assembly unanimously today, with two measures…

Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department announced Thursday that it has charged a 68-year-old South Carolina man in connection with a sexual assault cold…

Two loopholes in North Carolina’s sexual assault laws could close as legislators hammer out last-minute changes to three bills in a bipartisan conference…