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Unreported Spring Break Assaults

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:23:48 PM
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Daytona Beach Police are investigating two cases that involve a sexual assault on spring breakers. One of the victims is just 16 years old.

Both are unrelated other than they happened during Spring Break.
    
In one case, a victim says she was pulled into a car on South Atlantic Avenue, but able to get away. The other case involves a teen who also says she was attacked on the same road.
    
But rape crisis counselors as well as police agree that more sexual assaults, and attempted assaults are happening during Spring Break than are reported.

"In my professional opinion, there's probably one out of four that are reported,” Suzy Williams from the Sexual Assault Response Team said. “We haven't even touched the surface of what the statistics are."

Williams says cases may not be reported because some spring breakers may feel ashamed of placing themselves in harms way by either being at the wrong place at the wrong time or by drinking too much.

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