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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, April 28, 1986
Rape
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cident because she was afraid no one would believer her. She didn't even want to talk to friends.
"It's easy to tell when your house has been broken into because you can see what it's missing," she said. "But that's not how we know it." He been stolen in your self-diminety?
"It's easy now to talk about the race, because I've disassociated it from myself. But it's a scar that will never heal right."
LeCompte said date rape victims were primarily women ages 15 to 30, which was the age that most women date.
Houston said most of the rape cases that came to the emergency room at the hospital were committed
by an acquaintance.
Fliary said the facts were different in each case. The statistics on date rape cases are limited because so many cases go unreported. Date rape cases are slightly more difficult to prove than non-acquaintance rape.
Kansas statute defines rape as sexual intercourse with a person who doesn't give consent to the sexual intercourse.
"The law doesn't require that the victim says no, the law requires that the victim hasn't given consent." But the law isn't a big difference between the two.
A person doesn't have to say "no" to the attacker for the law to protect
Rape is a violent crime punishable from five years to life imprisonment, Brothers said.
the victim. The victim just doesn't have to say "yes," he said.
Sex is only the weapon used to commit the crime, Flory said, not the motivation.
Victims' vulnerability is the number one reason women are raped, Houston said. Rapists choose their victims on the basis of their vulnerability and availability, not their sexual attractiveness.
"Any situation in which the woman feels threatened is a vulnerable one," she said.
Society needs to stray from the notion that rapes are committed only
The myth that women ask to be raped because of the way they dress or by their actions needs to be abandoned, she said.
by strangers who jump out of bushes or hide in dark alleys, LeCompte said.
"Nobody asks to be raped," she said. "There is no action inviting this forceful act which invades another's sense of well-being."
Jayhawker Towers. A third rape was considered a false report.
The 1984-85 statistics on rape and other violent crimes are the most current from the KU police department, and that date rape was reported on campus.
In 1985, one non-acquaintance rape was reported in Hashinger Hall, and in 1984 a date rape was reported in
However, during 1984 in Kansas, 2026 or date acquirement rapes were reported. The details of the raps reverberated about half occurred in a residence.
Flory said the victim had basically three options to consider: formal report, informal report or no report.
Several legal options are available for victims of rape or sexual assault, but the law can work only for those who report the incident.
Report Once Flory receives a formal report, he reviews the charge, investigation and lab report.
Even if the case never goes to court, the formal report is kept on
file.
The second option is an informal report in which the victim talks to support center representatives or the victim in a formal, formalizing formal charges. Floyed said.
Houston said if a rape victim went to the emergency room, only at the victim's request would the hospital call the police or the support center
If the victim wants to file charges, a rape kit examination is given, she said. The police then are notified and瘀伤 comes to the emergency room.
The results of the examination can be used as evidence in a police investigation or in the courtroom, Brothers said.
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