The “Sexual Assault” category referred to earlier in Figure 4, is, like sexual harassment, also complex. It includes the subcategories of “Sexual Assault - Contact”, “Sexual Assault–Penetration”, and “Sexual Assault –Unspecified”. The proportions of these subcategories of sexual assault are portrayed in Figure 6.
Figure 6 shows that sexual assault–contact and sexual assault–penetration were reported in relatively equal amounts.
Figure 6 also shows that the majority of the 135 sexual assault reports (62%) fell into the “unspecified” subcategory. As with “sexual harassment–unspecified”, a sexual assault report is generally categorized as “unspecified” when a report is made to OPHD, but multiple attempts by OPHD to reach out to the impacted parties receive no response. In such instances, OPHD must close the case without receiving the additional information necessary to subcategorize the allegation with more specificity.