SAN ANGELO, Texas — Throughout her seminar Thursday on investigating sexual assaults, Special Agent Elizabeth Rocha kept returning to the victims — keeping them a top priority.
Rocha, a forensic science consultant with the Air Force, spoke to a group of military and civilian men and women about criminal investigations — from being handed cases to clarifying facts with victims after reviewing lab results.
Donna Casey, a sexual assault response manager with Goodfellow Air Force Base, said she spent the past two months coordinating the event. Originally the seminar was scheduled to take place on base, but it was moved to ASU because the issue isn't unique to military.
People ages 18 to 26, which includes college-age students, are at the highest risk for the assaults, she said. Rocha, who is based out of San Antonio, was invited to speak on behalf of the Office of Special Investigations or OSI.
"It's not a OSI issue, it's a San Angelo issue," she said.
Nita Tinney, executive director of the Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center, said she and other staff served 337 men and women last year. Cases reported to law enforcement made up 204, and 114 clients didn't report their assault to police. Nineteen others were considered secondary clients.
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The next story may cause your blood to boil.. this story was posted on March 8, 2011 by the nytimes.com. If you read the story you feel the writer is more concerned about those who raped the girl, than they do towards the girl raped. You be the judge.
Rocha, a forensic science consultant with the Air Force, spoke to a group of military and civilian men and women about criminal investigations — from being handed cases to clarifying facts with victims after reviewing lab results.
Donna Casey, a sexual assault response manager with Goodfellow Air Force Base, said she spent the past two months coordinating the event. Originally the seminar was scheduled to take place on base, but it was moved to ASU because the issue isn't unique to military.
People ages 18 to 26, which includes college-age students, are at the highest risk for the assaults, she said. Rocha, who is based out of San Antonio, was invited to speak on behalf of the Office of Special Investigations or OSI.
"It's not a OSI issue, it's a San Angelo issue," she said.
Nita Tinney, executive director of the Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center, said she and other staff served 337 men and women last year. Cases reported to law enforcement made up 204, and 114 clients didn't report their assault to police. Nineteen others were considered secondary clients.
To read more visit; http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2011/apr/07/rape-exams-explained/
The next story may cause your blood to boil.. this story was posted on March 8, 2011 by the nytimes.com. If you read the story you feel the writer is more concerned about those who raped the girl, than they do towards the girl raped. You be the judge.
Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: March 8, 2011
Michael Stravato for The New York Times
CLEVELAND, Tex. — The police investigation began shortly after Thanksgiving, when an elementary school student alerted a teacher to a lurid cellphone video that included one of her classmates.
The video led the police to an abandoned trailer, more evidence and, eventually, to a roundup over the last month of 18 young men and teenage boys on charges of participating in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in the abandoned trailer home, the authorities said.
Five suspects are students at Cleveland High School, including two members of the basketball team. Another is the 21-year-old son of a school board member. A few of the others have criminal records, from selling drugs to robbery and, in one case, manslaughter. The suspects range in age from middle schoolers to a 27-year-old.
The case has rocked this East Texas community to its core and left many residents in the working-class neighborhood where the attack took place with unanswered questions. Among them is, if the allegations are proved, how could their young men have been drawn into such an act?
“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.” .
To read more visit; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/09assault.html
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Michael Stravato for The New York Times
The video led the police to an abandoned trailer, more evidence and, eventually, to a roundup over the last month of 18 young men and teenage boys on charges of participating in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in the abandoned trailer home, the authorities said.
Five suspects are students at Cleveland High School, including two members of the basketball team. Another is the 21-year-old son of a school board member. A few of the others have criminal records, from selling drugs to robbery and, in one case, manslaughter. The suspects range in age from middle schoolers to a 27-year-old.
The case has rocked this East Texas community to its core and left many residents in the working-class neighborhood where the attack took place with unanswered questions. Among them is, if the allegations are proved, how could their young men have been drawn into such an act?
“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.” .
To read more visit; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/09assault.html
