crimes high, reports low
On Tuesday, April 3, bet-
>en.l:30 and 1:50 p.m. near
i College on Beavercreek
ad, a brave but frightened
■year-old jogger prevented a
tentially violent assault on
r life: rape.
Forced into the suspect’s car,
ie was threatened with a
ife, and driven to the Barlow
ill parking lot where the at-
npted assault took place, ac-
rding to Sheriff’s reports.
ie young girl reportedly
inaged to wrestle the knife
ay from the attacker and
bbed him in self defense, ac
iding to reports, befor run-
ig to one of the College
ilersfor assistance. She later
ibrted the incident to the
ickamas County Sheriff’s of-
¡. A suspect was taken into
tody two days later in con-
ction with the attempted
An estimated 1,500 rapes,
pe attempts and other violent
« crimes occurred in
areas, with one of every 10 assault, she believes.
Hokinson agrees that in an
rapes reported.
In com
parison, rural areas like our abstract sense, the victim of the
own are usually smaller in size. April 3 incident was raped.
Due to the geography of the According to the director, what
area, and size of neigh takes place in the mind of the
borhoods, people know one victim is more important than if
another better. The word gets the violent assault takes place
around fast when an assault at all. “Your mind is the key to
the whole thing. Whether the
occurs and people have a ten
act lasts five minutes or an en
dency to talk about it more.
tire
hour, or doesn’t occur at
The nature of the crime, and
the people, result in fewer all, it is v lere the victim is at
that determines the severity,
and eventual recovery, of the
individual.” she said.
“The imagination takes over
When someone has a knife at
your throat, many images can
run through your
mind.
There’s the fear of losing your
life, guilt because you can’t do
anything about it, and the
feeling that if you do, the result
ding to Clackamas County reported rapes,” she said.
statistics. Roi Hokinson, direc
Feelings ot guilt and will be unfortunate,” she says.
In the case of the 17-year-
tor of the victims Service Unit emotional strain upon the vic
old girl, Hokinson believes she
of the Clackamas County tim are more prevalent when
may retain additional feelings
District Attorney’s Office, at neighbors, family and peers are
of guilt as a result of wounding
tributes the low percentage of
aware of the rape or rape at
the suspect. This type of guilt,
reports to the nature of a small
tempt, says Hokinson.
The
she says, stems from an early
community.
“The national - victim of an attempted rape
statistics are an average of all may suffer equally if not more influence by society that
urban, suburban and rural than the legal victim of a violent women are not conditioned to
learn defensive measures in
crisis situations.
“Generally,
society’s
consensus is that
women should not climb trees,
carry guns or protect them
selves when their lives are
threatened,” she said.
The recent incident shows
that women’s views toward
assaults like rape are changing.
In 1976, when the Victims
Services Unit began, only one
in 35 rapes were reported.
Last year, one in 25 incidents
were reported.
Additionally,- women are,
according
to
Hokinson,
becoming more acutely aware
of a rapist’s intent.
“Many
women have an amazing
faculty to assess the attacker’s
purpose. Some can perceive
tne rapist as just as scared as
they are. Others know that
when the rapist says, ‘I will kill
you,’ that he sincerely means
it, It seems evident that with
this intuition taking place, they
know whether to fight back, or
simply tell the attacker to let
them out of the car,” she says.
Clackamas County last year.
Fifty-nine were reported. Of
the reported rapes and rape at
tempts, 39 percent were ter
med “legal rape” (penetration),
while 33 percent included at-
tempts-either not carried out
by the assailant or prevented.
Sodomy and other sex crimes
comprised the remaining 28
percent.
One in 25 rapes was repor-
ted in the area in 1978, accor-
“Generally society's consensus is that
women should not climb trees, carry
guns, or protect themselves when their
lives are threatened.”
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ssembles fishing lure
The rising cost of fishing
luipment was what motivated
n Johnstone, a blind College
lident and experienced
perman, into his current oc-
paton:
assembling and
iliing fishing lures.
After making a $31 invest-
mt for a kit and materials,
ihnstone now puts out his
les at “a real bargain” of 50
ntsapiece. The going rate at
rning goods stores currently
wesfrom 89 cents to $1.29
Two different kinds of lures
e included in Johnstone’s
Eduction. The “bear valley”
mainly used for spring
¡nook, and the weighted
No. 4 metric” is ideal -for
feelhead fishing in faster
wing streams, he said.
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Blind student, Ken Johnston displays one of his fishing
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“They ordered 168, and if
they sell well, Wigwam will
keep me as a steady supplier,”
Both of these features are he said.
F found in store-bought
Blinded three and a half
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years ago at the age of 19,
[Johnstone’s lures also offer
pion in hook sizes, along
jth a higher quality “mustad”
pok.
Currently, Johnstone is
Wing to fill an order made
Inherent in the treatment of
the rape victim is support, both
emotional and otherwise.
Hokinson contends that while
the victim of an intended rape
usually will recover more
quickly than the victim of an
actual rape, “the elements of
family support, and an ‘infor
med friend’ from a Rape Victim
Advocate Program is essential
to a speedy recovery.
An
educated public is the best
prevention of rape there is,”
she says.
“If everyone knew there’s
someone who could help
them, they would be more
likely to report a rape, and if
they’re a victim, to seek
emotional help,” she adds.
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After the intended or com
pleted rape, the victim is often
burdened with insecurity,
anger, loss of sleep, sometimes
the inability to eat, and almost
always the fear tfce attacker
may return for another asault,
Hokinson says. During the af
termath, guilt is often induced
by society, and the “just world”
hypothesis. “What it means
is that the world is a good and
safe place, and the person in
volved is at fault,” Hokinson
explains. “Basically, it states
that if you hadn’t been where
you were at the time, it never
would have happened. This
kind of reasoning protects the
accuser, and places all the
blame on the victim,” she says.
Rapists, according to Hokin
son; do not attack only young
women. “Y ou have to under
stand what the rapist is like,”
she says. “Most are extremely
emotionally deficient, with
poor heterosexual relation
ships, a super domineering
mother and often, a non
present father. The ;apist does
not hate women, but has io
make all people feel rotten in
order for him to feel good
about himself. It doesn’t matter
if the victim is a small child, a
young man, or a 90-year-old
woman. The rapist will attack
whomever is available. The
anxiety he feels is usually a
struggle for power and identity
mixed with anger,” she says.
Johnstone is currently carrying
a 17-credit load which includes
jogging, machine shop, math
and first aid. He continues to
pursue fishing as a hobby,
although his handicap bars him
from fishing the small creeks,
which he once preferred.
Anyone interested in pur
chasing Johnstone’s lures can
find him in the machine shop,
from 8 a.m. to noon daily.
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