An article in the DePaulia Student paper, reports on the establishment of the Chicagoland Consortium for Safety on College Campuses which involves Cook County State's Attorney's Office, DePaul and other universities, including UIC and Northwestern.
The article states that "...studies estimate that 60 percent of rape and sexual assault cases are never reported to police or campus authorities. Even more alarming is the fact that of those sex crimes that are reported, RAINN has shown that there is only a 50.8 percent chance that an arrest will be made." The Consortium will make a collectice effort to change this situation.
"The goal of the State's Attorney's Office is to assist in the education of the entire campus body on the prevention of sex offenses," said Jennifer Gonzalez, chief of the State's Attorney's Sex Crimes Division. "And where that is not possible, to increase the reporting of such cases to allow us the opportunity to prosecute those individuals who have violated the law and hold them accountable for their actions."
See also June 2011 Chicago Tribune article :
One out of 4 undergraduate women will be sexually assaulted before they graduate, according to a 2010 Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) study. The study also found that 1 in every 6 American women will be sexually assaulted at some point during their lives.
Posted by: lawyers | January 31, 2012 at 01:07 AM
The grand jury noted that Sandusky was barred from the school district attended by the victim in 2009, after the boy?s mother reported allegations of sexual assault to the school. That matter was promptly reported to authorities, as required by Pennsylvania law ? a report that marked the start of an extensive investigation by Pennsylvania State Police and the Attorney General?s Office.
Posted by: search lawyer | February 01, 2012 at 12:51 AM
Editor's note : comment content quoted from "Child sex charges filed against Jerry Sandusky; two top Penn State University officials charged with perjury & failure to report suspected child abuse"
http://www.attorneygeneral.govpress.aspx?id=6270
Posted by: Walter Baumann | February 01, 2012 at 09:50 AM