Legally speaking you are completely wrong: "An assault is an act which causes another person to apprehend the infliction of immediate, unlawful, force on his person; a battery is the actual infliction of unlawful force on another person ... any touching of another person, however slight, may amount to battery."
I don't have public and private areas of my body. The whole thing is private. Nobody is allowed to touch it without my say-so. If someone hugged me when I was trying to back out of it then they have, both legally and morally, committed assault.
Now, it might not be assault with intent to harm, or serious assault, but it is still assault. Any kind of physical bullying is assault. Assault is a wide scale ranging from simply grabbing my arm to sticking a sword through me.
I think physical attacks to harm are different since it would be unlikely that an assailant would imagine erroneously that the other would consent to the attack.
Any touching of someone else's body without their consent is assault. Doing so in a sexual manner is sexual assault. Pushing someone back against the door of a police box, kissing them by surprise, and then refusing to back off when they're saying "No, get off." is sexual assault.
Couple of years ago, we had some neds break in to the close in Broad St. I asked them to leave and on the way out, one of the girls spat at me. She missed.
Later, the police perked up when I mentioned that as that contributed to the charge, and I believe contributed to previous assault charges and sentencing. It counted as attempted assault.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-05-25 01:04 pm
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"An assault is an act which causes another person to apprehend the infliction of immediate, unlawful, force on his person; a battery is the actual infliction of unlawful force on another person ... any touching of another person, however slight, may amount to battery."
I don't have public and private areas of my body. The whole thing is private. Nobody is allowed to touch it without my say-so. If someone hugged me when I was trying to back out of it then they have, both legally and morally, committed assault.
Now, it might not be assault with intent to harm, or serious assault, but it is still assault. Any kind of physical bullying is assault. Assault is a wide scale ranging from simply grabbing my arm to sticking a sword through me.
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I think physical attacks to harm are different since it would be unlikely that an assailant would imagine erroneously that the other would consent to the attack.
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Later, the police perked up when I mentioned that as that contributed to the charge, and I believe contributed to previous assault charges and sentencing. It counted as attempted assault.