Editor’s note: This story includes mention of sexual violence or assault.
A rape that occurred Nov. 8 was reported to IU Police Department on Nov. 13.
Officers from IU Northwest collected a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner kit, used to reserve evidence from an instance or allegation of sexual assault from a hospital in Gary, Indiana on Nov. 13. The reporting party told police the incident occurred on the IU Bloomington campus, IUPD Public Information Officer Hannah Skibba wrote in an email. The case is open, according to the IUPD crime log.
IU defines rape as the nonconsensual penetration of the private body parts by an object or any body part of another person or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person. There have been 21 cases of rape reported to IUPD since Aug. 21, according to the crime log.
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