The Lafayette Parish coroner's office is taking over responsibility for sexual assault forensic medical exams in the Acadiana region. (Getty Images) Lafayette Parish Coroner Dr. Ken Odinet’s office ...

The calls can come at any time. Sometimes the phone rings in the middle of the night. Other times it rings at 9 a.m. The calls can come from anyone: a police officer, a parent or a worker from the New ...

BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota lawmakers are considering a bill aimed at preventing rape victims from having to endure lengthy waits for sexual assault exams. State Sen. Carolyn Nelson, the bill’s main ...

Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro has long served sexual assault survivors who come through its emergency room doors, treating their injuries and — if victims choose — ...

Healthcare and forensic exams for sexual assault victims may not be guaranteed the way they once were for Mesa County residents. For years, the Mesa County Sexual Assault Nurse Examination Program ...

HARVEY, La. — Jefferson Parish says it will take over the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program for St. Tammany Parish. A Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between the coroner's offices of the two ...

The Johnson County Health Department will now provide ASSIST Indiana exam rooms for the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program. Daily Journal file photo Survivors of sexual assault and child abuse now ...

TV 11 NEWS AT FIVE CONTINUES. THE TRAGIC REALITY IS YOU CAN’T GET A RAPE EXAM AT EVERY HOSPITAL. THE TRAUMA OF SEX ASSAULT CAN LAST A LIFETIME AND IN MARYLAND, SURVIVORS CAN BE TRAUMATIZED MORE THAN ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. (WVUE) - A temporary restraining order has been granted against St. Tammany Coroner Christopher Tape, forcing him to resume the Sexual Assault Nurses Examination (SANE) Program ...

A new Texas law allows for forensic medical exams for sex assault survivors even if no report has been made to law enforcement.

COLUMBIA — The sexual assault clinic at University Hospital conducts between 120 and 150 sexual assault exams every year, Lesli Briggs said during the Sexual Assault Medical Panel at MU's Relationship ...

Texas's new HB 1422 empowers sexual assault survivors with a confidential way to collect DNA evidence through a no-cost ...