She says she knows the current definition of sexual assault would not capture what happened to her, but she hopes that could change. In an interview she said she does not want to minimize sexual assault in any way, but she feels like she was forced into oral sex. “This does not describe the gravity of the crime that was committed against me,” she said in her victim-impact statement of the mischief charge. “You shake your head at me, sir,” West told Whaley in court, “but the kind of breaking into houses . Nneka MacGregor, executive director of WomenattheCentrE, says the lack of an appropriate charge reflects a narrow understanding from both society and the law about the scope of sexual assault.

Source: thestar May 22, 2016 20:40 UTC