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Rape crisis centers in the United States, usually capitalized as Rape Crisis Center and often abbreviated as RCC, are community-based organizations affiliated with the anti-rape movement in the U.S. Rape crisis centers in other countries offer similar services, but have different histories and vary in their organizational structure.
The Victim Rights Law Center began as a project of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center in 2000. Founder Susan Vickers focused the organization's legal services on victims assaulted by non-intimate partners. The organization became an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2003.
A rape crisis centre, also known as a sexual assault crisis centre or sexual assault referral centre (SARC), is a specialised centre to support victims of rape or other sexual assault, both in the immediate aftermath of the assault and in the months and sometimes years following the attack. They are usually situated in a secure location and ...
USA TODAY's 18-month investigation into untested rape kits has lawmakers, victims' advocates calling for results, accountability.
USA TODAY relied on 30 hours of interviews, more than 1,500 pages of documents and police audio and video for a story on a Michigan cold-case rape.
But USA TODAY’s investigation found that in the nearly 10 years since that initiative launched, uneven progress has been made. The Justice Department said the program has led to 100,000 kits ...
In 2005, the campaign shifted to prevention of sexual violence and the first tool kits were sent out to coalitions and rape crisis centers across the country. [8] Awareness for the campaign culminated in 2009 when Barack Obama was the first president to officially proclaim April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
A Georgia couple was sentenced to 100 years in prison without parole after adopting two boys and sexually abusing them. William and Zachary Zulock will each spend the rest of their lives behind ...