Assault Awareness Training

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office is offering female high school seniors a training session on how to avoid becoming a victim of sexual assault. 

Prosecutor’s Office Staff Members Kasi Stewart and Sacha Daniels talked about their Sexual Assault Awareness program and shared how the students benefit from the presentation.

“Today we’re doing sexual assault awareness training for our high school seniors and freshmen females at Rosecrans High School,” Daniels said. “We feel this is important because these girls are going off to college or they’re just starting their high school career. Sexual assault it’s a… it’s an issue. It’s something that we hope to prevent anyone from going through.”

Statistics show that 1-in-5 people will face sexual assault in their lifetime and this course is an attempt to keep Muskingum County women safer by teaching them to how to better avoid being vulnerable.

“One of the things we do is go over date-rape drugs and kind of give them information about what they can feel like if you do have… if someone has slipped you a date rape drug,” Stewart said. “And then the second part is we teach them self-defense. So if someone has put you in a certain position or manipulated you, how to get yourself out of it. We try to focus on how to prevent yourself from getting in that situation but we go over what to do if you happen to find yourself in that situation.”

Stewart added that even though we live in a small town, 188 sex crimes were investigated in 2023 and that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of repair.