Warning Signs of IPV that a Friend, Peer, or Bystander May Observe

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Signs of Sexual Assault

Warning Signs Leading Up to Sexual Assault

• Isolating someone from their friends
• Pressuring someone to drink or use drugs
• Ignoring refusals of any kind and/or using pressure for sexual contact
• Giving someone alcohol or drugs (including Rohypnol or other “date rape drugs”) in order to have sex (oral, anal, vaginal) with them

Signs Sexual Assault is occurring or has occurred:

• Having sex with someone who is asleep, unconscious, or blacked out
• Pressuring someone to engage in sexual behaviors she/he/ze is not ready for
• Forcing someone to have sex

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Signs of Emotional Abuse

• Isolation: Distancing partner from family and friends
  Telling partner who he/she can and cannot see
• Put downs: Criticizing, Insulting, Humiliation
• Control: Needing to know where partner is at all times, threatening to hurt self as a manipulation to keep partner in relationship, being possessive, making all decisions, telling partner how to dress (more or less revealing than would otherwise), making threats, making partner feel guilty

Signs of Physical Abuse

Any of the following actions, or threatening to do the following:

• Pushing or shoving someone
• Throwing objects or destroying property
• Restraining someone from leaving
• Hitting someone
• Hitting the wall in anger
• Using a knife or a gun on someone
• Leaving or abandoning someone in an unsafe place