University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 20, 1991
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Reported local rapes increase
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Seven rapes have been reported to Lawrence police since Aug. 25, more than double the number of raps reported during that period last year.
Between Aug. 25 and Sept. 18, 1990, three rapes were reported to Lawrence police, according to KBI statistics. However, one of those rapes occurred in June 1989 and was not reported until August 1990.
At the start of each school year, the number of reported rapes and sexual offenses typically increases, said Lawrence police Ll. Mark Brothers.
Sarah Russell, director of Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services, said reports of rapes increased in the fall because people might be reporting incidents that occurred in the summer.
Only 10 percent of rapes are reported. Bussell said.
Russell said not every rape reported to Rape Victim Support Services was reported to police because some victims were reluctant to talk to police. This happened three times this fall, she said.
Rape in Kansas
A rage occurred in Kansas every 8 hours and 44 minutes.
A 1,000 cases were reported.
No rapes have been reported to KU police this fall, said Burdell Welsh. KU police representative. However, three rares were reported last spring.
1990 Kansas Bureau of Investigation Statistics
600 of those rapes involved victims who knew the offender.
600 of those raped involved victims who knew the offender.
Rapes occurred most frequently on Saturday and Sunday.
Of those three, two were "acquaintance rapes," meaning that the victims knew their alleged attackers. Charges have been filed in all of the cases, and 16 people have been dropped by the victim, Welsh said.
Rapes occurred most frequently on Saturday and Sunday.
Rapes occurred most frequently between 10 o'm, and 4 a.
Rapes occurred most frequently in June.
Rapes occurred most frequently between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.
Rapes occurred most frequently in June.
14 rape victims were male.
63. 5 percent of rapes occurred in a single-family home or apartment.
Source. 1990 Kansas Bureau of Investigation Statistics
Melissa Unterberg / KANSAN
Since 1988, seven rapes and one attempted rape have been reported to KI police.
National statistics show that an estimated one of every four women and one of every 10 men will be raped at some time in their lives, Russell said.
Last year, Rape Victim Support Services dealt with two reported rapes in the past month.
She said that nationally, acquaintance and date rapa accounted for 70 percent of all cases.
Lawrence公事Sgt. Kevin Harmon that said most of the raps that had
occurred since August in Lawrence were acquaintance rapes.
Police have identified suspects in six of the cases and have strong leads
The most recently reported rapes in Lawrence occurred Sept. 6 and 7.
In the Sept. 6 case, a 15-year-old girl who returned home alone about 11 p.m. in the 1800 block of Maple Lane was struck in the head with a bedpost and raped in a bedroom of her house
The Sept. 7 reported rape involved a woman, 36, who was raped early in the morning by two men who said they would give her a ride home from the Power Plant, a nightclub at 901 Mississippi St. The police found her at 1:30 a.m. in the 1300 block of Bullen Ave.
One in four teens consider suicide
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — A new federal survey of high school students found that 27 percent had thought seriously about killing themselves in the preceding year and that one in 12 had actually tried.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control survey, 2 percent said they had sustained injuries serious enough to require medical attention after suicide attempts.
The survey of 11,631 students was conducted last year. Ninth- through 12th-grade students were questioned in every state. Washington, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the CDC said yesterday.
Patrick O'Carrall, a CDC suicide researcher, said that although the fact that more than one in four seriously considered suicide was frightening, he was more worried about the 8 percent who had tried.
Sixteen percent said they had made specific plans to kill themselves, and 8 percent said they had tried suicide at least once in the preceding year. That is far greater than the number of actual suicides. The annual suicide rate for the age group is 11 per 100,000, according to CDC statistics.
O'Carroll, chief of the CDC's intentional injuries, said that almost everyone had idle thoughts of suicide and that attention needed to be directed to actual attempts.
"Every one of us is at risk," he said. "At some point, you have to not worry about that end of the spectrum that approaches the way everybody is. What's more worrisome is the attempted suicides, the medical consequences."
Robert Butterworth, a Los Angeles psychologist who specializes in youth psychology, said, "That 18 percent could be a cry for help. A lot of times it's a desperate attempt to tell someone they're in pain. But sometimes they mess up and it can be fatal."
the survey findings add to increasing evidence that most self-reported suicide attempts among adolescents and young adults do not result in injury, the CDC said in its report.
O'Carroll said that students who considered or tried suicide without hurting themselves should not be ignored.
"If somebody tells you they've attempted suicide, and you determine they're not at risk of dying, that doesn't mean you don't have to worry about helping that kid," he said. "There could be a problem with drugs or child abuse."
The CDC found that attempted suicides and thoughts of suicide were more likely for girls than boys. Thirty-four percent of female students said they had seriously considered suicide, compared with 21 percent of boys. Although 10 percent of girls had tried it, only 6 percent of boys had.
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