The assault was never prosecuted. Can I still bring a civil claim?

Yes. The civil standard of proof is lower, the decision to proceed is yours rather than a prosecutor's, and civil claims routinely succeed where no charges were filed. A criminal case, if there is one, runs separately.

Who besides the assailant can be liable?

Properties with security failures (the negligent security framework), employers who ignored warnings or skipped screening, rideshare and service companies, hotels and venues, any party whose negligence foreseeably enabled the assault. That's usually where meaningful compensation lives.

How private is a civil sexual assault case?

Survivors can typically proceed under initials or a pseudonym, sensitive records are protected, and most cases resolve confidentially without trial. We structure the case around your privacy from the first conversation.

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What Can a Civil Claim Recover?

Institutions whose failures allow an assault answer in civil court, and that accountability regularly runs into the high six figures and beyond. The money matters because it is the one language institutions understand, and because it pays for therapy, stability, and a future.

Privacy comes first: protective orders, discreet filings where the law allows them, and a pace you control. The people handling your case have done this work before, and they believe you.

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The Civil Path Is the Survivor's Path

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Criminal cases punish; civil cases compensate and expose. The civil claim reaches the assailant's assets and, more consequentially, the third parties whose negligence enabled the assault, through the same foreseeability framework as our negligent security playbook practice: crime history, ignored complaints, security that existed on paper. Our sexual assault guide explains the doctrine and the privacy architecture in full.

Where Third-Party Liability Arises in Aurora

The settings recur: apartment complexes along the Havana, Peoria, and Chambers corridors with documented security failures; the East Colfax motel strip's long crime history; rideshare trips across a city that runs on them; hotels and event venues; and workplaces. Each setting has records, police calls, complaints, screening files, that discovery reaches and survivors alone never could. Aurora's SANE resources and victim advocates provide the medical and support foundation; we build the legal case alongside them, at your pace.

How We Build These Cases

Privacy first: pseudonymous filing and protective orders from the start. Then the third-party record: the property's crime and complaint history, the company's screening and supervision files, prior incidents that establish foreseeability. Expert evidence grounds the harm, trauma's real, lasting economics, and resolution happens on your terms, confidentially where you want it, at trial where it takes that.

Damages, Venue, and Deadlines

Colorado's damage framework applies, and third-party commercial coverage is what makes it collectable. Deadlines vary by claim and defendant, and recent Colorado reforms have extended time for many survivors; the only safe rule is to ask now, confidentially. Venue for Aurora cases is Arapahoe or Adams County District Court. If trial is what it takes, we are ready.

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