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May 16, 2024
50 YEARS AGO
Rape victims will now have access to a counseling service in the City of Oneonta which would provide post-assault information on medical and psychological care. Public Safety Board members discussed the idea at a meeting Monday night. Last night the Common Council implemented the program and set up a fund to pay counselors. Safety Board members and Police Chief Joseph DeSalvatore agreed that such a service would be invaluable. The availability of women counselors, trained in psychology, would ease the anguish for rape victims who are reluctant to relate the details of their assaults to policemen. The knowledge that they would not have to undergo a police interrogation might encourage victims to report rapes and later to prosecute. A rape hotline is currently being formed at SUCO. Statistics quoted by board member Margaret Hathaway claim that only between 10 and 25 percent of rapes are ever reported to police.
May 1974
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