RAPE
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understand that rape can take forms other limn
vaginal Intercourse
"Rape is rapri is rape. ' she said Must people
when they think of rape, it s very narrow mind
ed.''
Two days after the altar k she called police, but
shir said they wouldn't file .1 report !>e< ause the
assault was in her .apartment and there w as noth
ing to prove the sex wasn't r onsensual
Mow. four years later she said, her goat is to
heal herself-and get rid of the guilt anti the rage
This kind of anger and pain, statistics show , is
something-. Mary -is not ; me m hav mg'.to deal .
w ill).
in TtWO, there w ere 1 . i 30 reported rapes :n <);
eg: n a number experts x,tv is extremely a w,
hi ■ a most women do n it rep- r! ‘Me tnm
SASS Statements say less than 10 percent of
rape victims report it to the p..!ue 1 sing (bis fig
ure the number of.rapes in (lot- s ,n '<\i'tO
would total more than 1 l.tiutl
Moreover, out of the !i '.\ rapes ‘tiat do get re
ported, 'even lewei 1 .is'e> 1 ..tie. id' W itt) ilhe a!
Iev;eti attacker lien ig ( : 1 x 10 t'd
Out of the i. I 10 rep: :V,r rape-, .de l begun tin
1‘etO. -1.1 arrests w.u m..dc • >: 1 a urc
kiiow n number were 1 oiiv n ted
Ili'il 1 r Mary and Sat., 0 among the ma.o'sty ol
w omen w ho did not see their, all u kers punished
lor their crimes although they knew their assail
Sara. JH, w ho w as raped hv her (a wlyvved bus
hand a couple ol years ago. said she . 1 -,i not try In
prosecute because she w.isn t sure il w lull hap
pened to her w as an actual rape
She woke up one morning, she said, and her
husband wouldn’t let her out ot bed
“It was like he wanted sex and 1 didn't and he
wouldn't let me up. she said 'll wasn't like
making love II wasn't mutual and it wasn't ur
ing "
Alterw aid she said si. w.is staled and si .a k. n.
and she confronted him hut he denied raping
"1 toll) him, this is rape Hr kept saving, boss
could ! sjv something like th.it,' S.ir.i said It ran
right through our marriage livervthlng that 1 sail)
happened, ho said It didn't
"Throughout our marriage all of mv thoughts,
feelings and port options were lielng denied
We fought some about whether or not it really
happened,' she said 1 didn't trust myself at all
at tins point I shut down what 1 thought and felt
and i fused down and just felt miserable
They didn t ever la's about the mi idolit during
the nest two sears dies remained married she
said, partly liecalise sfie suppressed her le.dings
at . out the I III idellt and essellt.llU ! . ■, s • d It . It
of her mind
it ssas like that tune didiot hiipj < :>
IIiis all ssent unde, ‘■.tails u: i- Vr ...I
After that mV unease irt life ami is! existing
IS . :!!-! up and up; I Stuffed tile •thoughts.. I slutted
till' feelings
I was m ured at home. and h.um- ss is supposed
to t>e safe, she said
\ t i me poi ut. |..;i a use C! her anxiety 'dm i a..:
. rape \rrs|s hue to talk to moiie aat iuu !■ .e
■ven though she i ouidn t identify its soiirt••
I se alsvass stolid lip to things that sseri tug
ger, but this ss as a generalized fear she s nd it
didn't Have a fai e
She disori ed her husband tie< ause of In. men
tit) abuse, .such as telling her he didn't !..... her
and that she svas ugly .
It svas after the separation, as she ss as reading
in the ‘library. lii.it she realized ss here the Par ss as
i ounng from
Then* ss .is a line and it defined rape, and I just
started crying and i rving and i rs ing "
Sara is now getting professional lielp to aliosv
her to cope ssitii tile tear and the pain that the
rape i uused
Sara lives alone in her apartment sstth tsso lug
dogs for protection Ilut she is constantly fearful,
she said l or example she is afraid to lease the
svmdovvs open at nigh! and is ung.s that sin*
should have to change her lile style lor fear of
ss fiat mas happen to tier
Wed. she does dale men. she said she ;s m ,i
s ari
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II I appointment *is ,1 t I;.!!
in 1 if;!U of rwent complaints di
in ted .it the committee
Dot kst,i.ier toi.l tin- i' ;. .*
sin- v\us concerned ,iln>ut li t
problems sin' li.nl hr ml about
which have been csui.erb.lted
1 , :. ulget ! i;ts due : . Mi .
5
; Id K'.t.ldef <1 I Ml •• ll.i ! !. .1
wlull- she Is willing tn t ut
budgets ".is <i m.ittef ui liei re;
tv she u I so vv .nits to see some
uniformity in the committee's
decision making
Another A S l!() i.xe; utive
st.ill change reve.ileii .it lues
day s senate meeting was the
resignation of ASl.'O Programs
( tuirdinulor Therese Duilruvar
Warren sutii site .uni liilis will
atisurb Dubruvucs lespon-sibili
ties lor tile remainder of the
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