{"id":5791,"date":"2025-03-27T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:33:02","slug":"bipartisan-effort-seeks-stricter-measures-to-protect-sexual-assault-victims-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/5791-bipartisan-effort-seeks-stricter-measures-to-protect-sexual-assault-victims-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Effort Seeks Stricter Measures to Protect Sexual Assault Victims in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><em>State Sen. Steven McClure, R-Springfield, right, introduced a bill to help combat sexual violence and protect victims in Illinois schools<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By ATHAN YANOS<\/p>\n<p>Medill Illinois News Bureau<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:news@capitolnewsillinois.com\">news@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD \u2014 Even after the family of a victim of sexual assault from Taylorville obtained an emergency order of protection, the school still allowed the young girl\u2019s assailant to attend the same school and merely moved him to a different school bus with younger students.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after three weeks of filing multiple orders of protection in court and advocating on their daughter\u2019s behalf that the girl\u2019s parents were able to get the assailant removed from their daughter\u2019s school.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this mishandled incident, state Sen. Steven McClure, R-Springfield,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/lawmakers-introduce-bills-to-punish-sexual-assault-in-schools-end-fossil-fuel-investments\/\">introduced a bill<\/a>\u00a0in January to help combat sexual violence and protect victims in Illinois schools.<\/p>\n<p>That bill,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/billstatus.asp?DocNum=98&amp;GAID=18&amp;GA=104&amp;DocTypeID=SB&amp;LegID=157217&amp;SessionID=114\">Senate Bill 98<\/a>, was not assigned to a committee before the Senate committee deadline on March 21 \u2014 a necessary step in becoming a law. But McClure said he has not given up hope for the bill and has filed a letter requesting an extension on the bill past the deadline this session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s still very much in play,\u201d McClure said Wednesday about the bill, which has gained bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>SB 98 would amend the Illinois School Code to implement a mandatory one-year expulsion for any public school student who is determined by that district\u2019s school board to have committed sexual assault, sexual harassment or engaged in a sexual activity without the consent of the other person. The bill specifies that it will include instances of sexual assault that occur in school or during any activities or events that \u201cbear a reasonable relationship to the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 82% of women in the United States have experienced sexual assault or sexual harassment, and 56% of women have experienced sexual assault before they turned 18, according to a 2024 study by<a href=\"https:\/\/stopstreetharassment.org\/2024\/09\/metoo-2024-study-released-today\/\">\u00a0Stop the Hate<\/a>, a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>McClure said he filed the bill after a 10-year-old girl at Taylorville Junior High School in his district was sexually assaulted multiple times on her school bus by a 14-year-old boy and then later sexually assaulted again by that same boy at their school bus stop after the school did not take measures to separate the two students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI filed the bill to stick up for these kids. It&#8217;s not fair for somebody who gets raped to have to go to school the next day on the school bus with the same person who did that,\u201d McClure said.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois already has a mandatory expulsion requirement in place for any student who has possession of a firearm, a knife or brass knuckles when used or attempted to be used to cause bodily harm. SB 98 would upgrade sexual assault to the same level of severity as those offensives.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of the young Taylorville girl who was assaulted has advocated for the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have laws where a student gets expelled for bringing a weapon on school grounds. For my daughter, this young man\u2019s body was his weapon, and he continually brought his weapon to school, on the bus and to the bus stop,\u201d she said at a Capitol news conference earlier this year. \u201cThis is not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials at Taylorville Junior High School declined to comment on SB 98 and their handling of the girl\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, who signed on as a co-sponsor to the bill, said that she supports the mandatory one-year expulsion but wishes it was more severe because of the high risk that many young girls face of being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to go back to a public school because students should be safe when they are at a public school,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cI have two sisters, and all three of us were sexually abused, so 100% of the girls in my immediate family were sexually assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jil Tracy, R-Quincy, a chief co-sponsor, said her decision to support the bill was largely influenced by a similar incident that happened in her school district, where a young girl was sexually assaulted by an older student on a school bus. The boy who allegedly assaulted the girl was still allowed to ride the bus with her, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school officials didn&#8217;t like it, but they didn&#8217;t really have tools to deal with it,\u201d Tracy said. She later explained that the girl was given a scholarship to attend a different school but still had to provide her own transportation to that school.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Ward, who is the CEO of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault and has publicly backed SB 98, said her group is \u201croutinely\u201d contacted by students who have been sexually assaulted in a school or in a school-related setting.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ward explained that she does not know whether the bill will help prevent further instances of sexual assault, she believes it will elevate the importance of addressing sexual assault in school and acknowledging its prevalence.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, D-Mayfield, one of the chief co-sponsors of the bill and the Chair of Assignments, said in a statement to Capitol News Illinois that while she fully supports the bill, she is \u201ccontinuing to review legislation filed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis measure opens the door for crucial conversations about how schools address sexual assault cases,\u201d Lightford said. \u201cOur top priority is protecting and serving our state\u2019s young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McClure said he has worked with the Illinois Education Association \u2014 the powerful teachers union that is backing the bill \u2014 and several other educational organizations to craft amendments to the bill, which he plans to file as soon as the bill is assigned to a committee.<\/p>\n<p>McClure said the amendments would give a school\u2019s superintendent and members of the school board authority to make changes in an expulsion on a \u201ccase-by-case basis,\u201d which McClure said was necessary to prevent court challenges to the legislation. Also, he said, the amendments would more clearly define sexual assault to account for the fact that in most schools, students are at an age where they cannot give consent.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Lake Forest, said she believes the bill addresses a bipartisan issue in an important way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing we can agree on, it\u2019s that students should feel safe at school,\u201d said Morrison, who also is a chief co-sponsor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Athan Yanos is a graduate student in journalism with Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, and fellows in its Medill Illinois News Bureau working in partnership with Capitol News Illinois.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\">Capitol News Illinois<\/a>\u00a0is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Steven McClure, R-Springfield, right, introduced a bill to help combat sexual violence and protect victims in Illinois schools By ATHAN YANOS Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bipartisan Effort Seeks Stricter Measures to Protect Sexual Assault Victims in Schools - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/5791-bipartisan-effort-seeks-stricter-measures-to-protect-sexual-assault-victims-in-schools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipartisan Effort Seeks Stricter Measures to Protect Sexual Assault Victims in Schools - 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