There were 143 rapes reported at N.J. colleges pre-pandemic. Here’s the campus-by-campus breakdown.
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
The “We Believe You” program was a success, with dozens of attendees participating via Zoom, she said.
But, telling people about all the counseling and help available to college sexual violence victims is one thing, Ford said. Getting them to actually report a rape, fondling or sexual abuse incident to campus police is another.
“I know a lot of survivors,” said Ford, 22, a Rutgers senior. “Most actually did not report. They said, ‘I do not want to pursue this.’”
In the calendar year before the coronavirus pandemic shut down most of their campuses, New Jersey’s four-year colleges received 143 rape complaints, according to an NJ Advance Media review of 2019 crime reports from the state’s 28 residential colleges and their satellite campuses.