UCHealth Memorial Hospital provided 2,515 forensic exams last year for patients who were sexually assaulted or choked or were victims of child abuse or elder abuse
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Opinion: Her clothes have nothing to do with it
Blaming sexual assault on what the victim is wearing ignores all the evidence that clothing doesn’t matter; evil intentions do.
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Opinion: Let down by authority, rescued by Roe . . . and let down by authority
The next casualties in this war against women’s autonomy may occur at the ballot box
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What’d I Miss?: Did past generations really value marriage more — or was society just different?
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning |
Posted inHealth, News, Politics and Government
About 25 people age 14 and younger get abortions in Colorado each year
More than 120 girls ages 14 and younger have had abortions in Colorado in the past five years, including eight 12-year-olds, according to the state health department. The state statistics do not include any children younger than 12, though doctors who provide abortions in Colorado said they have treated 10- and 11-year-olds. One doctor interviewed […]
Posted inCrime and Courts, Education, News
Federal appeals court revives former DU student’s claim that anti-male bias led to his expulsion
A federal appeals court has given new life to a lawsuit filed by an undergraduate student who argues he was expelled from the University of Denver because of anti-male bias in the investigation of a sexual assault allegation against him. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision Tuesday sends the case back to Colorado’s federal […]
Posted inCartoons, Opinion
What’d I Miss?: The racism lobby
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | More cartoons from The Colorado Sun
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Silverman: Examining Tara Reade’s sex assault allegations against Joe Biden
Rape is an abomination. So is a false accusation of rape. I made those statements, and many others, when analyzing the sexual assault case against the late Kobe Bryant in Eagle, Colorado. My opinion was solicited because I prosecuted many high-profile rapists. It was my privilege to prove the government’s case at the Denver trials of […]
Posted inSun Investigation
A Denver priest — his dad’s best friend — raped him. The state’s Catholic Church abuse report revealed the secret.
Warning: This story contains explicit descriptions of sexual assault. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Neil Elms planned to carry his biggest secret to his grave. He thought no one would ever know what he’d kept hidden for 37 years. Elms never told his mother or father, or any of his six siblings. He concealed it through […]
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Opinion: Justice means we must believe sexual assault survivors first
It is heartbreaking, infuriating and almost too hard to watch. A young woman is asked to repeat the painful details of her sexual assault to investigators over and over and over again. Viewers of the Netflix series “Unbelievable” will recognize this story of a serial rapist in Colorado and in Washington State. It may be, as […]