Professor Patti Falk was quoted in the following article:

Tony Rizzo, “Raymore man’s arrest puts rape by fraud issue in the spotlight,” Kansas City Star, October 27, 2016 (regarding the use of fraud to accomplish sexual assault). The article is available here.

Professor Falk was quoted in the article as follows:

Patricia Falk, a law professor at Cleveland State University who has written on the topic, said there are many other ways besides force that a perpetrator can use to overcome a victim, such as coercion, blackmail or deceit.

“We shouldn’t have such a narrow understanding of what constitutes sexual assault,” Falk said.