Sexual abuse is typically defined under state law as any sexual contact between an adult and a child, even if there was no physical contact that occurred. Sexual abuse can come in many forms: sexual grooming, unwanted sexual advances, showing the child sexual images, the adult asking the child to touch them, actually touching the child – either under or over the clothes, forcing or coercing the child to touch the adult, and forcible rape. All of these forms of sexual abuse can provide the basis for a sexual abuse claim against not only the perpetrator but any institution that allowed the abuse to take place as a result of negligence.