Hi,
I'm presently on the practice venturing out of great key to Poughkeepsie and that I simply had a surprising and troubling remark designed to me from an MTA worker, a Metro-North Train Conductor.
Myself and another ladies had a doorway popped from us from the metronorth worker. A couple of minutes later, a MTA worker arrived in and believed to myself and another worker “I don’t understand how you two got on below, but when there is a guy on here and also you were raped, it'd be your personal problem since we were trespassing”. (Mean while, a mta worker obviously exposed the doorway for all of US having a key)
This remark, from an MTA Feminine worker shows a troubling perspective that's existing amongst this government went division. It's surprising in my experience, that the government worker, might place guilt to be raped on the ladies. And, in her very own phrases it'd be her very own problem! The city is accountable to coach their workers to combat this “blame culture” that exists which kind of prejudice which exist
Simply To bear in mind:
Based On www.nycagainstrape.org,
In Nyc, one review discovered roughly one in four ladies aged 14 to 23 experienced an undesirable sexual encounter previously year (Rickert, Wiemann et al. 2004).
Based On www.rainn.org,
1 from every 6 National ladies have now been the patients of an attempted or finished rape within their lifetime (14.8PERCENT completed rape; 2.8PERCENT attempted rape).
Every 2 units, somebody within the U.S. Is sexually assaulted. Listed here is the math. Based on the U.S. Department of Justiceis National Crime Victimization Survey — the nation's biggest & most trusted offense research — there have been 272,350 sexual attacks in 2006 (These numbers don't contain patients 12 yrs old or newer.) You will find 525,600 moments in a low-bounce year. Which makes 31,536, 000 seconds/year. Therefore, 31,536, 00 split by 272,350 arrives to at least one sexual attack every 116 moments, or around 1 every 2 units.
Rape can be an terrible offense and it has disastrous impact on a target and people near to the, Nobody requires to become raped which is never their “fault”. I'm insulted and shocked that the town worker isn't conscious and delicate for this subject. The MTA must take into account the instruction and training their workers must have.
Please post so some form of consciousness could be had
Truly,
Marykate Gillen
A rape survivor also it wasn’t my problem
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