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| Sexual assault is any unwanted
sexual act done by one person to another. This can
mean anything from unwanted touching of a sexual
nature to rape. There are many types of sexual assault
that appear in the Criminal Code. They include descriptions
of a variety of acts (for example, the use of a
weapon, causing bodily harm and making threats)
as well as the types of relationships within which
sexual contact is or may be a criminal offence (for
example, where one person is in a position of authority
over the other or where there is a relationship
of dependency by one person towards the other).
The penalties for committing these different types
of sexual offences vary from one to the other…Adapted
from METRAC, www.metrac.org. |
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