Crime & Safety
Police Investigate Halloween Sexual Battery On UC Berkeley Campus
Campus police ask that anyone with additional information about the crime contact investigators at 510-642-6760.
BERKELEY, CA — Police say they're investigating a sexual battery that happened at UC Berkeley on Halloween night.
The suspect grabbed a female's butt just before 10 p.m. at Lower Sproul Plaza, then walked off campus, according to the UC Berkeley Police Department.
Police described the suspect as having a light complexion and light-colored hair. He was wearing a black jacket and shorts at the time, authorities said.
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It's unclear whether anyone involved was a student.
Campus police ask that anyone with additional information about the crime contact investigators at 510-642-6760.
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Sexual battery is a type of assault when one person touches another without consent for sexual gratification, authorities said.
"Consent is a voluntary, conscious, revocable, and affirmative decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity," UC Berkeley police said in a statement Saturday. "Sexual assault is never the fault of the survivor. It is the behavior of the perpetrator that is wrong."
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