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C <br /> 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 of force, <br /> continues to rise in our increasingly complex and tension-filled society. <br /> often, the burden for rape prevention is placed on victims yet, those who <br /> perpetrate such crimes must learn that forcing themselves upon any unwilling Too <br /> person qualifies as a crime. <br /> Acquaintance rape is the most difficult crime to combat, since many <br /> are taught extreme aggressiveness from infant <br /> between acquaintances infancy. Rapes occur most frequently <br /> between , with fifty-seven percent of all victims knowing their <br /> Forty-nine percent of all rapes occur in the home of either the <br /> victim or the offender. <br /> Rape in North Carolina and in Orange County has increased more quickly <br /> than many other violent crimes in recent years -- sixty <br /> and a rape is reported to law enforcement officers q ckly <br /> percent Carolina every s <br /> hours. Despite such grim statistics, the Orange in North Carolina every stx <br /> five law enforcement agencies in g County Rape <br /> can provide education and training utoClessen the likelihood aofsassaueeagenciese <br /> assault. <br /> • <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, I, DON WILHOIT <br /> do hereby proclaim the month DON <br /> June,WILHOIT, of the Orange Count <br /> do <br /> County, 1986, as Rape Prevention Month" insioners, <br /> y, and urge all our citizens to recognize the threat of <br /> rape and join in preventing the incidence of rape and sexual assault in our <br /> County. <br /> acquaintance <br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of <br /> May, 1986. <br /> • <br /> DON WILHOIT <br />