Where's the Outrage?
[slogan used with permission from PCAR]
Since the agency was created in 1979, Sexual Assault Support Services (formerly the Women's Resource Center) has been at the forefront of the anti-sexual violence movement in NH. SASS has utilized its voice to advance the rights of countless victims and to affect critical change through its active role in public policy, education, and prevention. While much progress has been made in the response to victims of sexual violence in NH, there has not been a decline in the numbers of those affected by this heinous crime.
It is nearly impossible to read a local newspaper, or watch or listen to a news program without hearing about sexual assaults occurring right in our community. A study released in 2006 by the Governor's Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence determined that the number of women and girls in NH who have been victims of sexual violence could fill Fenway Park 3 times over!
Hearing this statistic should not only shock you, it should OUTRAGE you! We challenge you to turn your OUTRAGE into ACTION and do something to STOP this crime from happening to children, youth and adults in our community.
A selection of local articles about sexual assaults:
Ex-Somersworth school panelist gets 10-30 years for sexually abusing his young daughter
Somersworth School Board member Timothy Logsdon was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in state prison...
2009-12-2
Dover man gets 3 to 14 years in state prison for terrorizing ex-girlfriend
A local man accused of holding his ex-girlfriend against her will at his home and terrorizing her for a night last December pleaded guilty...
2009-11-18
Former radio host admits to sex charges
A former New Hampshire police officer and radio host is headed to prison for up to 20 years after pleading guilty...
2009-07-15
Man guilty of attempted sex assault of 15-year-old
A Maplewood Avenue resident was found guilty of attempting to sexually assault a minor and is scheduled to be sentenced...
2009-07-06
Graham sentenced for raping girl, 15
Former Pease firefighter and convicted rapist Gregory Graham was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 20 years in state prison...
2009-05-27
Predator law's first trial begins
William Ploof's claim that he sexually assaulted 20 to 50 people, many of them minors...
2009-05-27
Salem man guilty of sexual assault on child
A Salem sex offender, who served 17 years in prison for raping and killing a woman, was convicted...
2009-04-03
Ex-Catholic school teacher guilty of sexual assault on former student
A man formerly employed as a teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas High School...
2009-02-18
Dover man charged with sexual assault of Exeter minor
A Dover man is being charged with felonious sexual assault of an Exeter minor and was found guilty of interference of custody involving the same...
2008-08-08
Teen reports sexual assault
Police: Girl found intoxicated near middle school...
2007-08-29
Teacher indicted on 13 counts of sexual assault
A Rockingham County grand jury has indicted former DJ Bakie Elementary School music teacher Kenneth Lang, 60, on 16 counts of sexual assault...
2007-08-03