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Rape Crisis Centers Are the Latest Casualties

June 15, 2008

According to a Dispatch article the latest to feel the effects of an ailing economy are rape crisis centers across the state of Ohio.

As federal programs for crime victims and other justice programs are overhauled and cut for next year, the sexual-assault network is in danger of losing at least 82 percent of its $161,000 in annual operating money. The story is the same for the trauma-recovery program.

Is it not enough that these victims have to sustain the initial crime and then the make their way through our horrendous court system, but now we are taking away their support system to get through this nightmare? This is morally wrong and even though we all know that cuts need to be made to balance our budget, but I can think of a million other places to cut first.  Can’t you?

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Ohio Government 

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