Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stormy new rape debate...
Civility may be in retreat on other fronts, but most newspapers still routinely decline to print the names of alleged rape victims. That courtesy is seldom required by law and rarely afforded the victims of other crimes. Herman J. Obermayer, 53, editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun, an evening daily that goes to 20,000 households just south of the nation's capital, thinks it is time the custom ended...
...front-page editorial, Obermayer announced that the Sun will begin printing the names, ages and addresses of women whose rape complaints come to trial. "Protecting the accuser's anonymity, while fully identifying the accused, is tantamount to a pretrial presumption of guilt," he asserts. "A malicious woman could try to make the state take away a man's freedom for life without even risking public embarrassment...
...telephoned Obermayer to comment. "I assumed I'd get some mail, but I never expected this storm." says Obermayer. Though some opponents concede a logic in his position, most fear that the effect will be to discourage victims from coming forward. Says Sue Lenaerts of Washington's Rape Crisis Center: "Rape is a horrible, humiliating, degrading thing. If women know they'll be identified in the papers, hardly any will take a rapist to trial...
...gouge!" she shouted one afternoon last week. "Now follow with the knee in the groin. G-o-o-o-o-d." Conroy insists that her students wear ordinary street clothes rather than leotards or warmup suits. "Those are not," she notes, "what they would be wearing during an attempted rape...