{"id":458435,"date":"2026-10-06T22:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:42:20","slug":"ut-arlington-investigates-reports-of-2-sexual-assaults-in-residence-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458435\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Arlington investigates reports of 2 sexual assaults in residence hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Texas at Arlington confirmed on Tuesday that it notified its campus community of reports of two sexual assaults. <\/p>\n

ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating two sexual assaults that occurred on campus, the school confirmed in a sexual assault notification shared with students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement to WFAA, UT-Arlington said it is aware of the reported incidents and is providing “support and resources to those impacted.”<\/p>\n


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UT-Arlington police are investigating the incidents, according to the statement. The university notified the campus community about the incident in compliance with federal rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the notice, UT-Arlington received a report from a student that the sexual assaults allegedly occurred in West Hall and in a West Hall restroom on or around Sept. 15. The alleged second assault happened “shortly after the first,” UT-Arlington said in the notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At this time, there is no ongoing threat to campus, officials said. Because the incident is under investigation, the school did not offer any additional details.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UT-Arlington Police asks anyone who has experienced sexual assault or who has information concerning this incident to call 817-272-3381.<\/p>\n

“Community members are encouraged to remember that consent must be voluntary and ongoing. Consent cannot be inferred from being in a prior relationship, agreeing to spend time with someone, entering or remaining in another person’s residence, or previously engaging in sexual activity. A person may withdraw consent at any time,” the school said in the notice to students.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Texas at Arlington confirmed on Tuesday that it notified its campus community of reports of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-458435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}