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> Jane Doe No More Billboards featured on WFSB
WFSB Channel 3
Billboard campaign in CT creates awareness about sexual assault crimes and helps educate victims.

> Pregnant Marine's mom laments her death
MSNBC.com
Military investigators may have doubted a rape claim made by pregnant Marine Maria Lauterbach against a superior now facing charges for murder because the victim once made up a story about her brother's death at the hands of a relative, Lauterbach's mother said in an exclusive interview.

> High-tech upgrade for courts to boost convictions for sex crimes
The Canberra Times
ACT courts are to get a high-tech upgrade as part of a $4million effort to boost the territory's low conviction rate for sexual assaults. Attorney-General Simon Corbell said the technology currently used to allow victims to give evidence remotely was "not up to scratch" and was hampering the delivery of justice.

> Men walk against domestic violence
Saipan Tribune
Close to a hundred men participated in a walk along Beach Road yesterday afternoon to raise awareness against domestic violence in the CNMI. The men were joined by a few women during the walkathon that began at 5:30pm from the Minatchom Atdao Pavilion in Susupe to the Quartermaster on Beach Road and then back.

> New law eliminates statute of limitations on sexual assault cases in Connecticut
Various Publications
Browse articles and video detailing Donna Palomba's successful campaign for the state of Connecticut to change the statute of limitations in sexual assault cases where DNA evidence is uncovered.

> Saratoga welcomes Jane Doe No More
The Saratogian
There are so many worthwhile fundraisers during race season. But the one Monday at the home of Cathy and Elliott Masie could affect any one of us.

> Donna Palomba, Jamie Lee Curtis will headline Business Women's Forum
Waterbury Republican American
Despite the post traumatic stress disorder, humiliation and vicious memories, Donna Palomba learned a lot from her brutal rape 14 years ago.

> Donna Palomba guest appearance on Connecticut Morning WTNH News Channel 8
WTNH
Westfarms and the State Department of Labor are paying tribute to one special woman as Connecticut's Working Woman of the Year.

> Rapists among the 8,000 sex offenders let off with a caution
Evening Standard
Almost 8,000 sex offenders including 234 rapists have been let off with a caution over the past five years, it has emerged.

> Only Eight States Left in the Jessica's Law Campaign
FOX NEWS
Congratulations to Connecticut, which just passed Jessica's Law, the strict mandatory prison legislation for adults who molest young children.

> Sexual assault is often unreported
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Most sexual assaults are never reported to authorities — and that's why it's so important to Benton County officials that those victims of sexual assaults who do step forward are treated with care and compassion each step of the way.

> New DNA testing could involve shaking down family tree
9NEWS
There's a new way of looking at DNA that could involve shaking down someone's family tree to search for a criminal suspect.

> Fed Up With All the Violence
The Daily News
In wake of Chickasaw Gardens assault, citizens group takes outrage to Nashville.

> Easing trauma for sex victims
The Daily Telegraph
Sexual assault is one of the most traumatic of all crimes and its victims suffer deep physical and psychological wounds which may last the rest of their lives.

> Rape reforms need funding - Libs
The Daily Telegraph
ATTORNEY-GENERAL John Hatzistergos has pledged action for rape victims in the state's courts after admitting the system had failed them for years.

> Bill would increase penalties for sexually assaulting children
News Channel 8
The state Senate has voted unanimously to create a new crime for sex offenses against children under age of 13.

> Statute of limitations bill passes House
Waterbury Republican American
The statute of limitations barred Waterbury police from charging a man with rape, even though DNA linked him to a notorious 1993 sexual assault. The state House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation on Wednesday aimed at preventing a repeat of what happened in Waterbury.

> McCrone helps speed sexual assault cases
Westmont Progress
A Westmont company specializing in microscopes may have developed a tool that could help solve crime. The McCrone Group, Inc. announced it teamed with a Hillside DNA forensic laboratory to create a new sperm identification system.

> Would Donna Palomba discover the identity of her masked rapist? Would there be justice over 10 years later?
Transcript from Dateline on NBC
Waterbury, Conn. - Overlook is a lovely old neighborhood in Waterbury, a small town in Connecticut. It's the kind of place where family ties run deep and friendships run long. Where the kids you play with in kindergarten are buddies for life. A place where you sleep safe at night. Or so Donna Palomba thought-until one terrifying night in 1993.

> Show on Saratoga case airs Sunday
Albany Times-Union
The story of how Saratoga Springs law enforcement helped bring John F. Regan to justice for the attempted abduction of a high school track runner and a 1993 sexual assault in Connecticut will air at 7 p.m. Sunday on "Dateline NBC."

> Regan victim's group gets publicity
The Saratogian
SARATOGA SPRINGS - City Police Chief Edward Moore is not particularly interested in watching a "Dateline NBC" special tonight on John Regan, the man who tried to kidnap a Saratoga Springs High School student from outside the school on Halloween 2005.

> 14 years of silence ends for rape victim
Waterbury Republican American
Donna Palomba is no longer Jane Doe.
"A doctor would tell me where there's secrets, there's shame," she said last week. "I don't want to have shame about this because I did nothing wrong."

> In Regan saga, justice has been served
The Saratogian
Everyone likes a story with a happy ending and, by most counts, the case of rapist and would-be kidnapper John Regan is one.

> How we healed
SELF Magazine
Rape survivors can be haunted for a lifetime. But new therapies are helping them make peace with the past.

> Fighting sexual assault
Wisconsin Radio Network
Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton says the state is doing a good job fighting sexual assault, but its efforts can be improved.

> Safe Harbor offers comfort to victims of sexual assault
Moorpark Acorn
Few people know what goes on inside the small house that sits along a shady street in Ventura. That's because the people who step inside here are either victims of sexual assault or those trying to help them.

> Victims, know your rights
The Daily Times, Tennessee
"Rape is not about sex. It's about power and control over the victim." Holly Fuquay, financial coordinator and spokeswoman for Safe Haven of Knoxville, said rapists use sex as a weapon.

> Crime lab mishandled DNA results
The Boston Globe
An administrator at the troubled State Police crime laboratory has been suspended for failing to tell prosecutors of DNA matches in a number of unsolved rape cases, which now cannot be pursued because the statute of limitations has expired, the head of the State Police said yesterday.

> Awareness Week Kicks Off: 'Take Back the Night' will focus on international issues related to sexual violence
The Harvard Crimson
"Sexual assault is a very prominent issue, particularly on college campuses," said Ryan M. Travia, director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, one of the program's 18 co-sponsors. "This is one of the most under-reported crimes out there."

> New methods offered to assault victims
The Signal
The School of Nursing, in conjunction with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, hosted a panel discussion on March 1 about the clinical aspects of sexual assault response, emergency contraception and mental health.

> Study reveals prevalence of sex violence
Nashua Telegraph
Concord - Girls and young women in New Hampshire who have been victims of sexual assault could fill Fenway Park more than three times, according to a University of New Hampshire survey released Friday.