Gardaí in Cork need more resources to investigate sexual assaults and rapes which tend to increase during the early autumn months when third-level colleges re-open, according to a campaigner against sexual violence. Mary Crilly of the Cork Sexual Violence Centre said three young female students from UCC and CIT had contacted them since the start of September to say that they had been raped. Two of the three had dropped out of their courses to return home to their families. She said that the Cork Sexual Violence Centre notices a similar increase in young women contacting them when UCC and CIT return but often the young women may not have been drinking and in one of the recent cases, the attack happened in the woman’s own building. He said that the combined figure for rapes and sexual assaults fell by 11 per cent when the two eight month periods were compared.

Source: The Irish Times September 25, 2018 07:59 UTC