University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1983
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Rape law supporters want more changes
By DIANE LUBER
Staff Reporter
Both men and women will be able to file rape charges against their spouses under a bill signed into law by Gov. John Carlin yesterday.
Proponents of the measure from across the state applauded the Legislature for passing it, but said that more should be done to ensure that they be brought all cases of rape in the open.
THE COORDINATOR OF PROGRAMS for the Women's Transitional Care Service in Lawrence, Suzanne Ermeling, said that married women might still be reluctant to file rape charges against their husbands.
"Rape is such a difficult issue to go public with," she said, "but at least they now have the opportunity."
Ermeling said she did not know whether the changes in the law, which go into effect July 1, would result in more rape convictions.
"It's hard enough to get a rage
conviction against a stranger, let alone in a marriage," she said.
Edith Guffey, director of Lawrence's Rape Victim Support Services, said, "We're very proud of the state of Kansas for enacting such a law
we have not had many reports of marital rape. Maybe now women in this situation will be more comfortable coming to us."
coming to do a GUFFY SAID THAT EVEN though the district attorney did not make victim resistance an issue in rape cases, she was glad rape victims no longer had to prove resistance to obtain convictions.
'Now the victim doesn't have to think
'Didn't didn't I fight?' she said.
Linda Carol Woody, state coordinator of the Kansas National Organization for Women, said, "We couldn't be more pleased."
the effects of the changes in the law will not be obvious right away, she said, and other states which have enacted similar changes have not had a flood of rape charges against spouses.
"Unfortunately, most women, when they're married, are not comfortable with prosecuting the person that they love," she said.
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR, LEGISLATIVE consultant for the Kansas Association of Domestic Violence Programs, said that of the 47 charges of marital rape that have been filed across the country through 1982, 23 went to trial and 19 resulted in convictions.
"That just shows that most of the cases that do go to trial are convicted," she said.
said.
Joan Hamilton, assistant district attorney for Shawnee County, said convictions of marital rape would be almost impossible to obtain if victims continued to live with their spouses.
Hamilton testified in legislative hearings in support of an earlier form of the bill which would have made rape within a marriage a crime only if spouses were living apart or if either had filed for separation, divorce or annulment.
IF COMPLETE ELIMINATION of spousal protection had been necessary, she said, more women would have been coming into her office to file charges of rape against their husbands.
"That hasn't happened," she said.
The bill creates the crimes of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery to cover sex-related crimes that are not rape.
The bill also
That mesh happened, she said. Hamilton supported the other changes the Legislature made in the law.
"the new crime of sexual battery was a necessity," she said.
- allows men as well as women to file charges of rape.
- expands the definition of rape to include rape with an object.
- extends the rape shield statute to victims of sex-related crimes other than rape. The statute prohibits the use of the victim's sexual history as evidence in court.
12-year-old from Cambodia becomes spelling bee champ
By United Press International
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A 12-year-old Cambian girl who was forbidden to attend school for three years while digging ditches on a communist labor gang has become a spelling bee champion in America
Linn Yann could count to 10 in English, but that was all she knew of the language when she arrived in the United States in 1979 after fleeing Cambodia with her family in a daring, 100-mile walk.
BUT FOUR YEARS LATER, Hamilton County school officials say Lann has won the right to compete April 28 for the chance to represent Chattanooga in the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
The fifth-grader reed off "accentuator" and "injusticiable" among other words and then clinched the victory in the match last Thursday by spelling
"I want to become a smart girl and that's why I study a lot," said Linn after defeating her opponents in a game against the Hamilton County Shelling Bee.
In Cambodia, Linn said she was
forced to work from "morning to sunset" for three years, digging ditches and planting rice fields for the Khmer Rouge communists, who ousted the U.S. backed Lon杞 regime in 1975.
LINN FLED CAMBODIA WITH her mother and five sisters and brothers by walking 100 miles to Bangkok, Thailand, sleeping under cover of leaves in daylight and traveling at night. Linn said her father was killed by the communists when he became too ill to work in the rice paddies.
*russy Thrash, whose family has helped sponsor the refugees, said, "Linn is a survivor, a strong competitor. She has that driving instinct to just make it. Her attitude is 'I can do this.'"
the refugees were sent to America as part of a program by World Relief Services. Linn's mother, Say Phoen Chov, works on an assembly line at a Chattanooga factory.
Lann said she learned to speak English by watching television and by taking special lessons from her teacher at a public school.
at a public school.
Asked what she liked best about America, Linn replied, "Freedom I guess."
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Bridges showed slides yesterday of the boy's head with the scalp removed. The slides showed blood in four or five places on the skull and on the underside of the scalp where he had received the blows, he said.
Bridges said that the blows on Pratt's head could have been inflicted by a hand, foot, elbow, or knee.
KU WSUR AND SHIELD will meet at 7:30 m., in Cork II the Union.
"It would have to be a pretty significant impact, but there might be no evidence of it at all on the hands of a well-developed adult."
Dr. William Eckert, a pathologist from Wichita, testified Friday that all the blows could have been inflicted at any time within a 24-hour period before the boy's death.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM will present "India: A Different Perspective" at 11:45 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
DAVID REEVES, LAWRENCE police detective, testified that he had noticed no injuries on Chavers hands when he interviewed him on
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White, worked at Haskell Indian Junior College, Hall said.
Mike Hall, another Lawrence police detective, testified that Chavez had told him several different stories about the night of Dec. 8, when he was taking care of Pratt. Chavez was caring for the child while the child's mother, Sabrina
Hall testified that Chavez had tried to resuscitate the boy, and that the boy had urinated and vomited.
Him said Chavez the one she saw that he had taken Pratt to sleep with him on the bed after he heard the boy crying about a 1 m. Chavez said that when he woke up, about 6 a.m., the boy was blue and appeared to be dead. Hall said.
Bridges testified that the boy's vomiting indicated that he was in grave physical danger.
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HALL SAID CHAVZE LATER told him that the boy had fallen off the couch during the night and that he was in pain. Then he tried to get back on the couch.
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Reeves said that when he first questioned Chavez on Dec. 9, Chavez had not mentioned anything about the boy falling from the couch.
HE SAID THE BLOWS probably occurred two to six hours before the boy died.
Both Reeves and Hall said Chavez told them that Pratt had fallen and his forehead on Dec. 8 while he was playing at a friend's house.
The prosecution will rest its case this morning against Stanley W. Chavez, who is accused of killing a 2-year-old Lawrence boy Dec. 9, 1982, a Douglas County assistant district attorney said yesterday.
In testimony yesterday, Dr. James Bridges, a pathologist from Shawne Mission Medical Center, said that either of two of five blossoms that the victim, Prateh White, had grown head could have caused his death.
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Reeves testified that Chavez had been distraught and sobbing when he saw him at the hospital at about 9:30 on the morning of Dec. 9
Reeves said Chavez agreed to come to the law enforcement center and was questioned throughout the day.
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Nitcher said the state had not presented evidence to show that Chuves's actions were against him. He had been anything more than accidental touching.
But Malone overruled him, saying that the boy had received several blows to the head and that the case should be sent to the jury.
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