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RAPE PREVENTION MONTH <br /> 1986 <br /> BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF ORANGE COUNTY <br /> A PROCLAMATION <br /> Rape or sexual assault, through the use of force or the threat <br /> of force, continues to rise in our increasingly complex and tension- <br /> filled society. Too often, the burden for rape <br /> prevention <br /> victims; yet, those who perpetrate such crimes mustlearn that forcing <br /> on <br /> themselves upon any unwilling person qualifies as a crime. <br /> Acquaintance rape is the most difficult crime to combat, since <br /> many men are taught extreme aggressiveness from infanc <br /> most frequently between acquaintances, with fifty-seven y' enteo occur <br /> victims knowing their assailants. Forty-nine <br /> in the home of either the victim or the yoffenderrCent of ellcrapesfoecur <br /> Rape in North Carolina and in Orange County has increased more than many other violent crimes <br /> since 1976 -- and a rape is reported in <br /> torecent years -- sixty ore <br /> North Carolina y Percent <br /> Northe Carols Carolina everysisixenhours. five law enforcement statistics, the <br /> Despite such orce statigenci, tin <br /> our County, and other social service law enforcement a <br /> training to lessen the likelihood of assaults can fancies in <br /> provide education and <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, I, DON WILLHOIT, Chair of the Orange County do hereby Month"o he Orange yproclaim the month of June, 1986, as "Rape <br /> recogni2e the threat of acquaintance ara eurge oin our citizens he to <br /> incidence of rape and sexual assault in our County�in in preventing the <br /> day of May IN 1986WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth <br /> , . <br /> Don Willhoit, Chair <br />