[2] An individual who has been subjected to aggravated sexual assault as a child may experience depression, typically more often and to a greater degree than any other person.
[2] Depression is a sense of sadness, and can cause a person to isolate themselves from society, and lose interest in activities they once enjoyed.
[1] Symptoms of depression include feeling worthless, hopeless, a change in eating habits, irrational anger or anxiety.
It is extremely difficult to obtain a conviction for sexual assault; approximately 85% of sexual assaults never come to the attention of the criminal justice system, and of those offences that are reported, only a small proportion proceed to trial, with an even smaller percentage of these cases resulting in a successful conviction.
This includes, amongst others, where there are any of the following elements to the allegation:[5] English and Welsh criminal law does not specify a crime of "aggravated sexual assault" but the CPS states: "There may be the presence of aggravating features that make the offence significantly more serious, such as, abuse of position, use of drugs or other substances, use of violence/coercion, use of a weapon in the offence, repeated offending etc.
(2) A person guilty of aggravated sexual assault shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.
It may also "include a sexual assault that is aided or abetted by another person, occurs during commission of another crime, or involves use of a deadly weapon.
The perpetrator uses a person's physical injuries as a way to rape the individual, uses death or kidnapping, uses a deadly weapon, or is aided by one or more people.
[9] (Connecticut Penal Code 53a-70) A person who commits sexual battery is convicted with a misdemeanor of high and aggravated nature.
A person who commits Aggravated sexual battery receives a punishment of imprisonment for twenty-five years to life.
[9] If a person commits aggravated sexual assault in Louisiana they shall serve a lifetime sentence in prison.
That is then when the Supreme Court determined that if a person with HIV does not disclose that they are infected it is considered aggravated sexual assault.