Newsletter: Author: Peg Horan, CSW

Articles

January 13, 2004: Justice For All : Sexual Assault in the MR/DD Community

In the moments before I meet a woman with mental retardation who is a complainant in a sexual assault case in Brooklyn, I remind myself that this is probably not the first time she was raped. But it may be the first time an outcry witness -- the person she first told about the incident -- believed her. [more]