Alaska highest sexual assault rate ("steeped in sexual violence") and highest HS dropout rate in USA

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-29-alaska-sexualassaults_N.htm

Rural Alaska steeped in sexual violence
Posted 1/30/2008

By Rachel D'oro, Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — The state has long suffered the highest sexual assault rate in the nation, and the problem is worst in rural areas, according to a report released Tuesday.

The numbers are unacceptable, troopers said at a news conference Tuesday detailing the study.

"Each of us has a role in ending sexual violence in Alaska," said trooper Col. Audie Holloway. "We need to think into the future."

In nearly 1,000 cases studied over two years, the average age of victims was 16, while the average age of those accused was 29. In four out of five cases, the suspects were relatives, friends or acquaintances.

Overall, 89% of the victims were female. One out of three cases were reported more than a month after the abuse occurred, leaving evidence hard to collect.

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And on the dropout rate (video):

http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/2330719/Learning


I think we really need to be looking into the reality of the state Ms. Palin has been "governing."

http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-against-women/maze-of-injustice/page.do?id=1021163&n1=3&n2=39&n3=1410



So Sarah, what have you done on behalf of women?

Oh that's right, you charge them for their own damn rape kits.

Refreshing! All the sweetness of successes and none of the sour Alaskan failures!

for the rape-kits needed to prosecute rapists, Palin seems to live in a world where women are supposed to be hunted.

the notion that a woman doesn't get raped, she asked for it.............and that is why Palin didn't care if the rape victim had to pay for her own rape kit.

if she wants to make the victims pay for the rape kit. does she think that the women are to blame for what happened to them or something? is she one of those folks who think that women ask for it? i mean, she opposed abortion even in the instance of rape. though i have not heard such things from her mouth, using the circumstancial evidence, i tend to think this woman is no friend to women. she probably thinks women deserve what they get or something.

More snips from the article>

The study is believed to represent only a fraction of abuse actually committed in trooper jurisdiction. Still, Alaska has had the nation's highest per capita occurrence since 1995. According to statewide figures for 2003 and 2004 alone, there were 89 rapes per 100,000 people, almost three times the national average of 32 per 100,000, said Andre Rosay, the Justice Center's interim director.

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Capt. Steve Arlow, commander of the detachment, said the numbers were not surprising. Sexual assaults account for the bulk of work done by troopers, he said.

"Our troopers are out there dealing with it every day," he said.

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Looks as if rape is a way of life out there. And Sarah Palin is not on the side of the victims, whose average age is 16.

I'd take advantage of the lack of gun laws and carry at all times. I don't think I'd want to live there though. It's not even the weather that would bug me; it's all the republicans and the type of culture that mind-set brings about.

This is important. It gives the lie to Palin's "feminism." Thank you.