Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rape crisis centers usually have counselors on call 24 hours a day. They stay with the victim during the medical exam and assist her with the police report. Reporting the rape is important both to put repeat offenders in jail and for therapy. "It's getting back," says Gail Abarbanel, director of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Rape Treatment Center. "To discourage women from reporting is a bad message that implies the victim had a role in the rape...
Police treatment of rape victims in most cities reflects a new sensitivity. Recruits are given instruction on handling victims, and many forces have established special rape squads, with contingents of female officers. "The old line that women ask for trouble just isn't heard any more," observes Spencer Nelson, a Seattle-area detective...
...hospital emergency rooms, where precious evidence was often lost through carelessness, techniques have greatly improved. Rape crisis centers send experts to lecture to interns at medical schools. Many hospitals now use evidence kits consisting of envelopes marked for clothing, fibers, hairs, blood and secretions...
Dean Kilpatrick, a clinical psychologist with the Medical University of South Carolina, cites a study of young doctors in his hospital that found "they still make a judgment about whether or not it's a 'real rape' that is similar to society's stereotype." Says Kilpatrick: "Around here, we refer to a real rape as the rape of a nun on her way to Sunday vespers who gets assaulted by Hell's Angels. But.if you have a victim who had been drinking or if the victim knew the guy even a little, you get some negative attitudes...
Last month Illinois Criminal Judge Christy Berkos gave a lenient sentence to notorious Plumber-Rapist Brad Lieberman, who, on top of prior rape convictions, pleaded guilty to five rape charges. In an interview, the judge explained his sentence: "Lieberman had done things that did hurt the women, but fortunately he did not hurt the women physically by breaking their heads or other things we see. He didn't cut their breasts off, for instance...