Sexual Assault

Question 1

Describe the history of rape

Answer 1

The Code of Hammurabi, established around 2000 BC, provided the first written law and punishment for the crime of rape. Under this code, a suitor or his family paid a “bride price” to the father to take possession of his bride. However, the girl’s virginity had to be guaranteed so that the family bloodlines would be untainted. If a daughter was raped prior to her marriage, it was considered a crime against her father, who would receive far less money because his daughter’s virginity had been stolen.

Question 2

MOTIVES AND OBJECTIVES

Answer 2

1. Power-assertive
2. Power-reassurance
3. Anger-retaliatory
4. Anger-excitement

Question 3

MYTHS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT

Answer 3

1. Victims provoke sexual assaults when they dress provocatively or act in a promiscuous manner.
2. It’s only a sexual assault if the victim puts up a fight and resists
3. If a person goes to someone’s room or house or goes to a bar, they assume the risk of sexual assault
4. Women report sexual assault to get even with men or to protect their reputation
5. A sexual assault survivor will be battered, bruised, and hysterical.
6. Sexual assaults occur in dark alleys
7. Men cannot be sexually assaulted.

Question 4

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-652 (2010). Criminal Sexual Conduct in the first degree

Answer 4

(1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if the actor engages in sexual battery with the victim and if any one or more of the following circumstances are proven:
(a) The actor uses aggravated force to accomplish sexual battery
(b) The victim submits to sexual battery by the actor under circumstances where the victim is also the victim of forcible confinement, kidnapping, trafficking in persons, robbery, extortion, burglary, housebreaking
(c) The actor causes the victim, without the victim’s consent, to become mentally incapacitated or physically helpless by administering a controlled substance

Question 5

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-653 (1976). Criminal Sexual Conduct in the second degree

Answer 5

(1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree if the actor uses aggravated coercion to accomplish sexual battery.

Question 6

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-654 (1976). Criminal Sexual Conduct in the third degree

Answer 6

(a) The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual battery in the absence of aggravating circumstances.
(b) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless and aggravated force or aggravated coercion was not used to accomplish sexual battery

Question 7

Marital rape is also known as

Answer 7

intimate partner violence, domestic sexual abuse, and, in South Carolina, spousal sexual battery

Question 8

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-615 (1976). Spousal sexual battery

Answer 8

accomplished through use of aggravated force, defined as the use or the threat of use of a weapon or the use or threat of use of physical force or physical violence of a high and aggravated nature, by one spouse against the other spouse if they are living together

Question 9

The offending spouse’s conduct must be reported to appropriate law enforcement authorities within

Answer 9

30 days

Question 10

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-658 (1976). Criminal sexual conduct; when victim is spouse

Answer 10

A person cannot be guilty of criminal sexual conduct under Sections 16-3-651 through 16-3-659.1 if the victim is the legal spouse unless the couple is living apart and the offending spouse’s conduct constitutes criminal sexual conduct in the first degree or second degree

Question 11

DRUG-FACILITATED SEXUAL ASSAULTS

Answer 11

1. Ethanol
2. Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
3. Rohypnol
4. Ecstasy
5. Ketamine

Question 12

EMOTIONAL STAGES AND COMMON REACTIONS OF THE VICTIM

Answer 12

1. Shock - Numbness
2. Disbelief - Denial
3. Anxiety
4. Guilt
5. Anger - Resentment
6. Fear
7. Additional Reactions a. Embarrassment
   b. Shame c. Powerlessness

Question 13

RAPE TRAUMA SYNDROME

Answer 13

1. Acute Phase
2. The Outward Adjustment Phase
3. The Resolution Phase

Question 14

THE FIRST RESPONDER’S RESPONSIBILITIES

Answer 14

First, the immediate medical needs and emotional state of the survivor must be tended to. Second, crime scene evaluation and evidence gathering should begin as soon as law enforcement arrives on the scene.

Question 15

CODIS

Answer 15

Combined DNA Index System

Question 16

S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-620 (2009). When DNA samples required:

Answer 16

(1) a felony offense or an offense that is punishable by a sentence of five years or more; or
(2) eavesdropping, peeping, or stalking

Question 17

The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit should be used for both adult and child victims if the assault has occurred within the past:

Answer 17

120 hours

Question 18

After 72 hours:

Answer 18

it is unlikely that serological evidence will still be present on the victim, but the documentation of injury or marks is important; thus, the protocol contains only paperwork to document specific findings.

Question 19

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-1350 (2017). Medicolegal examinations for victims of criminal sexual conduct or child sexual abuse

Answer 19

must not bear the cost of his or her routine medicolegal exam following the assault.

Question 20

S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-440 (1976). Notification of sheriff of offender’s release, probation or change of residence, juvenile offenders

Answer 20

shall provide verbal and written notification to the offender that he must register with the sheriff of the county in which he intends to reside within one business day of his release

Question 21

S.C. Code Ann. § 23-3-460 (2022) registration for life

Answer 21

bi-annually

Question 22

Tier-III sex offender registration

Answer 22

every 90 -days