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Editor’s note: The Quad Community Press does not name victims of sexual assaults. The survivor will be referred to as “Jane.” May 8, 2015 will forever be the worst day of Jane’s life. That’s the day everything changed.
BY THE NUMBERS: 351,000 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the U.S.
7 out of 10 sexual assaults are
perpetrated by someone known by the victim.
30, the age that most sexual
assault victims are under. 15% are 12-17; 54% are 18-34; 28% are 3564; 3% are 65 and over.
1 in every 6 American women
has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime.
3% of American men (1 in 33) have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. Source: Alexandra House, compiled from a multitude of sources.
The assault On the Friday following Cinco de Mayo, Jane, 25, went to a bar with some friends for a birthday celebration. They ran into a group of four men. One of the men introduced himself as “Hugo.” “I thought he was creepy but I did think one of his friends was cute, so I continued talking to his friend,” she recalled. Hugo became irate and begin calling Jane vulgar names when she started to pay more attention to his friend. Jane, who was sober, decided to leave the bar and drive the 10 minutes back to her apartment. Once she got home, she was trying to lock the door when she felt resistance and before she knew it there was a man in her apartment. She quickly recognized him as Hugo. He said, “We are going to get to know each other very well.” Jane tried to make it to her bedroom, where she had a 9 mm gun in her nightstand. “When I opened my bedroom door,
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my dogs rushed out. They believed we had a visitor and wanted attention. Scared for my dogs and knowing I couldn’t protect them and go for my gun, I froze,” she recalled. “Before I could get any further into my bedroom, he rushed me and slammed the door behind him. He grabbed me by the hair on the back of my head and shoved me on my bed. I remember thinking God, please don’t let him rape me.” When the assault was over and Hugo had left, Jane did the one thing you are not supposed to do after a sexual assault: she showered. “I felt so gross and sticky. I felt like I smelt like this rancid smell that I could smell coming from him. I felt so disgusting that my fi rst reaction was to get into the shower,” she said. Jane works in criminal law, so she knew once the evidence was gone, there was a very slim-to-no chance that the perpetrator would ever be caught. “I also felt a lot of shame and guilt. I thought it was my fault and that I was going to be blamed for this,” she said. “They won’t see me as a victim, they will just see me as a slut.” Alexandra House Executive Director Connie Moore said, “A lot of times victims won’t report because they are feeling like — somehow — they are responsible for what happened. They feel that if they had done something different it wouldn’t have happened to them, so it is their fault.” SEE COPING WITH ASSAULT, PAGE 10
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The state of emergency declared by the Shoreview City Council due to the onset of COVID-19 has been extended indefinitely. At the May 18 council meeting, held via teleconference, council members unanimously voted to approve a resolution extending the period of local emergency, originally declared March 16. There is no official expiration date for the extension. City Manager Terry Schwerm explained that the end date is tied to the lifting of the state's peacetime emergency declaration. “Right now, it (the statewide emergency) is scheduled to expire June 12,” Schwerm said. “I fully anticipate that it may continue on for some time so that the state can continue to qualify for federal aids and federal funds that may become available. But we'll have to see.” Schwerm said that the extension “most importantly” makes the city eligible for state and/or funding that may soon become available due to the pandemic. The extension also allows City Council and other public meetings to continue to be held via teleconference. Since April 6, councilmembers have used the application Zoom to hold their bi-monthly meetings. Due to COVID-19, the Shoreview Community Center has been closed since March 16 and City Hall since March 18. Both buildings will remain closed until further notice. Annual citywide summer events have also been affected. Slice of Shoreview Days, held each year at the end of July, has been canceled for 2020. The Concert in the Commons series, originally scheduled to start June 10, has been postponed until July. More information about the city's ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic can be found at shoreviewmn.gov. The council next meets at 7 p.m. Monday, June 1, via teleconference.
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