Subject Index Sexual Abuse

On Aug. 26, 2024, the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court held that no Equal Protection rights violation occurs when a sex offender who abuses a close relative receives a harsher punishment than they otherwise would have if they were unrelated to the victim.

On Aug. 26, 2024, the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court held that a parent who was aware of child-abuse allegations against another, yet continued to allow that person unsupervised access to their child, could be found to have inflicted sexual abuse on the child.

The Privacy of Child Victims of Criminal Sexual Offenses Act is amended to exclude the identity of a child victim of a criminal sexual offense from law enforcement and circuit court records. A select few specific individuals may be exempt.