Sexual assaults under-reported in official campus tallies

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky police reported 12 sexual assaults on campus in the 2013-14 school year. That same year, 67 people went to the UK Violence Intervention and Prevention counseling center to say they had been victims of sexual assault.

The Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/1AP3eGG ) reports the same disparities occurred on some other college campuses in Kentucky.

The University of Louisville and Western Kentucky University each reported one sexual assault that same school year.

The newspaper says 43 people went to UofL’s Prevention, Education and Advocacy on Campus and in the Community center. And the WKU counseling center saw 21 victims. The counseling center numbers were collected by the Herald-Leader through open records requests.

The gap highlights how complicated the issue of campus sexual assault is and why it’s so difficult problem to solve.

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Information from: Lexington Herald-Leader, http://www.kentucky.com

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