[Spam] RE: [Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

[lfalen]

While the 8% national average for false reports maybe low, 70% is obviously a way too high. The tragedy of articles like this is that there will be more rapes going unreported.
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From: debismith at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:40:36 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] RE: [Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

> Having just completed the YWCA Week Without Violence and the Clothesline Project at 
> WSU, I read the article and cried. The Clothesline Project consists of over 600 t-shirts painted 
> over 14 years. Each shirt is painted by a survivor or supporter of someone who was assaulted, 
> most speaking of sexual assault. We know many of these women, we know they didn't report 
> the assault, and we know why they choose to not be re-victimized by the type of troglodites 
> exhibited by that newspaper story.
> 
> To suggest that 70% of reported rapes are false is completely insane. Why would anyone 
> report a sexual assault if the police already plan to discount it? It must be true that going to 
> Lewiston means you move 30 miles down the hill and 30 years into the past...
> 
> These officers desperately need remedial training. I would suggest they be required to come 
> hang the Clothesline Project, and read the stories of the people they call liars. And they should 
> be put on non-paid leave until they do.....next year, third week in October.
> 
> Debi Robinson-Smith, YWCA of WSU
> 
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