Texas Health offers the following tips should you become a victim of sexual assault:

• Go to a safe place and call someone you trust
• Go to the nearest hospital with a SANE program or call 9-1-1
• Do not change clothes but bring a change of clothes to the hospital
• Do not shower, bathe or douche
• Do not brush hair or teeth
• If possible do not eat, drink or go to the bathroom
• Do not smoke

If you have done ay any of the above it is OK! It is still recommended to seek medical services to make sure that you are alright. A sexual assault medical forensic examination can be done several days after the incident. Victims 18 years of age and older, you have the right to decide if you want to report the sexual assault to law enforcement or not. If an adult victim can choose to have a non-report sexual assault medical forensic examination. In other words, you do not have to report the sexual assault to law enforcement until you feel safe to do so. A non-report sexual-assault medical forensic examination can be conduct up to 120 hours after the assault. The anonymous non-report evidence kit will be held up to five years by the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab.