[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6330]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMS WEEK

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                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 15, 2011

  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this week is National Crime Victims' 
Rights Week.
  And the month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
  These two occasions remind us of the importance of educating our 
fellow citizens about how we can help victims of this terrible crime 
and how we can stop sexual assault before it happens.
  According to the National Institute for Justice and the CDC, every 
two minutes someone in the United States is sexually assaulted.
  And one out of every six women has been the victim of an attempted or 
completed rape in her lifetime.
  As both a prosecutor and a judge back in Texas, I dealt with rape 
cases for 30 years.
  I learned firsthand the devastation sexual assault victims 
experience.
  Sexual Assault does not just physically harm the victim but is an 
assault on their entire being.
  We need to promote justice for sexual assault victims here in 
Congress and throughout this great nation because justice is what we do 
in America.

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