https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2-PenalLaw/130/130.30%282%29.pdf
mentally disabled [or mentally incapacitated]. The following terms used in that definition have a special meaning: SEXUAL INTERCOURSE means any penetration ...Read more
https://rainn.org/get-the-facts-about-sexual-violence-against-people-with-disabilities/
Oct 9, 2025 — ... rape. For individuals with disabilities who might have physical, sensory, cognitive, or emotional limitations, the risk of experiencing ...Read more
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9425723/
by AM Amborski · 2021 · Cited by 236 — A growing number of large-scale studies suggest that people with disabilities are at greater risk of sexual victimization than nondisable
https://ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/rape-treatment-recommendations-disabled-people
by NJ Baladerian · Cited by 1 — ' Such persons are particularly vulnerable to sexual assault and exploitation, because sex offenders view them as helpless. Persons who sexually
https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2024/SCO/1008/230786.asp
Oct 8, 2024 — In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Mark Gasper for raping a 32-year-old woman with cerebral palsy and intellectual ...Read more
https://www.cdc.gov/sexual-violence/about/sexual-violence-and-intimate-partner-violence-among-people-with-disabilities.html
Apr 23, 2024 — Women with a disability are at greater risk of experiencing rape than women without a disability. An estimated two in five (39%) female victims ...Read more
https://www.maconbibb.us/man-found-guilty-of-raping-mentally-ill-intellectually-disabled-macon-woman/
Macon – Jurors deliberated less than an hour Friday before finding a Macon man guilty of rape following a trial in Bibb County Superior Court. David Lee ...Read more
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/pursuing-justice-rape-victims-intellectual-disabilities
Rape victims who have intellectual disabilities are frequently victimized twice: once during the commission of a crime, and again when their cases go to ...
https://www.vera.org/publications/sexual-victimization-of-men-with-disabilities-and-deaf-men
Men with disabilities experience victimization, including sexual violence, at rates higher than their counterparts without disabilities. In partnership…
https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_201720180ab516
This bill would add the crimes of rape, sexual penetration, sodomy, and oral copulation, perpetrated against a person who is incapable, because of a mental ...
https://www.unfpa.org/news/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-disability-and-sexual-violence
Oct 30, 2018 — UNITED NATIONS, New York – Fifteen per cent of the world's population lives with a disability, and nearly 200 million are.
https://www.visionforequality.org/2022/11/man-jailed-in-rape-of-intellectually-disabled-woman/
Nov 28, 2022 — Article published on www.wfmz.com A Chester County man is behind bars on charges related to the sexual assault of an intellectually disabled ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-rape-sexual-assault-disabled-victim-meerim-aliaskarova/33211147.html
Nov 25, 2024 — ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan -- Born with a severe form of cerebral palsy and epilepsy, life has always been difficult for Meerim Aliaskarova.Read more
https://ecbawm.com/news/ecbawm-files-a-federal-lawsuit-in-albany-on-behalf-of-a-disabled-woman-raped-by-a-fellow-resident-at-a-new-york-state-group-home/
The lawsuit alleges that staff turned a blind eye to the disabled woman's prior complaints of sexual abuse.
https://books.openedition.org/uop/559?lang=en
Fran Odette writes about the specific experience of disabled women who are sexually assaulted, highlighting the additional consequences they face.Read more
https://now.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Disabled-Women-Sexual-Violence-4.pdf
As a populace, the disability community experiences one of the highest rates of sexual assault in. America and shockingly, this community is hardly included ...Read more
https://rootedinrights.org/im-a-survivor-of-sexual-violence-that-caused-my-disabilities-heres-why-im-still-proud-to-be-disabled/
Sep 19, 2019 — I also want people to know the stories of abled people who are assaulted and, through the assault, become disabled. We all need to know that ...Read more
https://arrington.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1252
Mar 15, 2024 — A Haitian migrant the Biden administration allowed into the United States was arrested for raping a 15-year-old girl with disabilities in Massachusetts.Read more
https://www.injurylaw-kc.com/sexual-assault-of-the-intellectually-disabled/
Mar 31, 2023 — Intellectually disabled persons are sexually assaulted and/or raped at a rate seven times higher than those without disabilities according to crime data from ...R