School is responsible to create a safe space to share experiences of sexual assault without fear of retaliation. Sexual crimes differ from others because they usually involve people who are close or familiar with each other, consumption of alcohol/drugs by one or both parties, disputes regarding consent, victims who behave different than victims of other types of crime, and investigations with little witness accounts and physical evidence. Consent is an agreement to engage in sexual acts that can be withdrawn at any time, doesn't mean that future acts are consented to, can only be given by people of statuary age and are not psychically or mentally incapacitated; silence or lack of resistance is not consent.
