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A special investigation
The start of the fall semester through Thanksgiving break is a particularly vulnerable time known as The Red Zone, where more than 50% of sexual assaults happen. But college students are also at a heightened risk for other forms of abuse, such as intimate partner violence, throughout the academic year.
PublicSource spent six months speaking with survivors, advocates, lawyers, police and university officials to investigate the prevalence of sexual violence on Pittsburgh college campuses and its effects. Here's what we found.
“I didn’t report it, not because I didn't remember what happened. I remembered vividly what had happened, but there was no one around to really believe me or support me and help me to understand what had happened,” writes one woman.
"I was too naive to realize there isn’t a type of person to whom sexual violence does or does not happen. On Oct. 3, 2021, that naivety left me,” writes Kaycee Orwig in this first-person essay.
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