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Assault on a Female. If a male at least 18 years of age assaults a female, the crime of assault is elevated from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class A1 misdemeanor. This can mean a substantially harsher sentence for the offender, and it is not the type of charge that you want to navigate on your own.
However, the terms are actually two separate legal concepts with distinct elements. In short, an assault is an attempt or threat to injure another person, while a battery would be actually contacting another person in a harmful or offensive manner. Below is a more in-depth look at both offenses and their elements, which helps explain how these two offenses are so closely tied together.