Huge Rise in Number of Sex Attack Referrals ; Increased Awareness Behind Rise, Says Care Centre

Western Daily Press › December 29, 2009

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The number of women and girls in one West town referred to a centre for victims of sexual assault has increased massively in just a year, organisers said yesterday.

The SARC centre in Swindon announced that since April this year, the numbers of cases it has been dealing with are 'significantly higher' than in previous years.

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Huge Rise in Number of Sex Attack Referrals ; Increased Awareness Behind Rise, Says Care Centre

The centre, the New Swindon Sanctuary Sexual Assault Referral Centre, said that in six months to November it dealt with more cases than in the whole of 2008....

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