WASHINGTON -- Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11) has introduced legislation which will provide funding to states for rape prevention and education programs.
The legislation, the Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program Act of 2007, will extend grant programs for rape prevention education to the year 2011, and provide funding for resource information, policy, training, and technical assistance to federal, state, and local agencies.
According to FBI statistics, 302,091 women and 92,748 men are raped each year, and 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men has experienced an attempted or completed rape as a child or adult.
“The suffering of these victims and the jeopardy of potential victims must be improved; and the scourge of sexual violence and its devastating impact on individuals, families, communities, and our society as a whole must end,” McCotter said. “As a husband and father of young children, I greatly empathize with victims of these horrific crimes and their families.”