Sexual Assault

125 Stories

A Seattle doctor was investigated for fertility fraud. The case highlights tension between patient, physician rights

KUOW reviewed hundreds of pages of Washington Medical Commission documents and state legal codes and found a tension the agency faces: balancing a doctor’s right to due process with a patient’s desire for more information about the people they trust with their health care.
- Katie Campbell
Washington lawmakers consider bill to prevent abuse in youth sports

A bill before Washington state lawmakers aims to prevent abuse in youth sports by making coaches mandatory reporters of abuse and requiring them to receive annual training on the law.
- Ann Dornfeld
Seattle Schools pays former student record $16 million to settle Garfield coach sex abuse lawsuit

Seattle Public Schools will pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit by a former student who says two Garfield High School coaches sexually abused her for years, the largest-ever tort claim settlement in district history.
- Ann Dornfeld
Former coach charged with child rape has been attending Seattle school sporting events, judge finds

A former Garfield High School coach charged with raping a student violated his electronic home monitoring conditions by attending numerous high school sporting events last winter, according to a judge's findings.
- Ann Dornfeld
Former Shoreline assisted living caregiver charged with raping two residents with Alzheimer’s

The two elderly women had Alzheimer’s and significant cognitive impairment – but were both able to tell their families about the male employee who had raped them at the Aegis Living Center in Shoreline where they lived.
- Amy Radil
Why 2 women paused before reporting that UW football player Tylin Rogers raped them

Editor’s note: This story contains allegations of sexual assault and a brief mention of suicide.
- Katie Campbell
Two former Garfield High School athletic coaches accused of sexually assaulting student

A former volunteer weight-training coach at the Seattle high school faces felony charges for allegedly serially raping a female student athlete. Separately, the former girls' basketball head coach was fired in 2022 following allegations of sexual misconduct involving the same student.
- Ann Dornfeld
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate will be extradited to U.K., after Romania trial

The self-proclaimed misogynist — who faces several allegations of sexual assault in multiple jurisdictions — will be extradited to the U.K. after facing trial in Romania.
- Fatima Al-Kassab
Too many King County sexual assaults are pleaded down to lesser crimes, advocates say

Advocates for sexual assault survivors say King County is letting too many defendants plead guilty to lesser charges - often, to non-sex-crimes.
- Ann Dornfeld
A U.N. report finds 'reasonable grounds to believe' attacks in Israel included rapes

The report, which fell short of a full U.N. investigation, said rape likely occurred at at least three sites on Oct. 7. Some hostages held in Gaza were also subject to sexual violence, the team found.
- Michele Kelemen

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