sexual assault

The emergency contraception reimbursement requests for rape victims are pending at Attorney General Brenna Bird's office office months after she put the practice on pause.

A state board has suspended a former Lone Tree educator’s Iowa teaching license for at least 12 years for alleged sexual involvement with a student nearly two decades ago. But the former student is still barred by Iowa law from seeking justice in the courts.

A Polk County judge ruled that Pieper Lewis will remain on probation after escaping from a residential facility last November.

A bill that would deny food assistance to some Iowa households is on its way to Gov. Kim Reynold's desk.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird's office said it is reviewing the practice of using money from the Crime Victim Compensation Program to pay for emergency contraception and abortions for sexual assault victims.

If a survivor of childhood sexual abuse tells someone what happened to them, studies suggest most don’t do it until they’re well into adulthood. But many Iowans abused as children run out of time to sue their abusers at age 19. Survivors and some lawmakers are working to get rid of the time limit on civil lawsuits related to child sex abuse with the hope that they can protect kids in Iowa.

An update on the COVID-19 pandemic, the sentencing of the man convicted of killing Mollie Tibbetts and a new Waterloo literacy program from Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones.

The Iowa Attorney General’s office has released the findings in its review of clergy abuse within the state’s Catholic Church.

A team of advocates from a nonprofit group for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders released their findings from a months-long study on sexual violence in the Iowa AAPI community.

A statewide group is bringing attention to Latinx survivors of sexual assault. The project is meant to highlight people in Iowa's Latino community who may remain silent about their experiences.