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East Texas Crisis Center hosts âDenim Day,â bringing awareness to sexual violence
DENIM DAY By Erin Wides | April 28, 2021 at 10:30 PM CDT - Updated April 29 at 12:21 AM
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The East Texas Crisis Center along with many other organizations are raising awareness about sexual violence during Sexual Assault Awareness month.
This evening on the square jeans were hung with messages of hope, stories from survivors, and statistics having to do with sexual violence.
The event is called âDenim Dayâ and originated in Italy in the 1990â²s.
âA 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by her adult driving instructor and he was convicted, he went to prison; about five years later he appealed the conviction,â said Cheyenne Jones, the sexual assault program coordinator with East Texas Crisis Center. âIt went all the way to the Italian Supreme Court and ultimately the Supreme Court overturned his conviction on the basis that her jeans
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A woman looks at blue jeans with messages challenging misconceptions about sexual violence, hung by the UCLA Clothesline Project, on the University of California Los Angeles campus during Denim Day April 21, 2004.
Every 73 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually assaulted. Before the age of 18, approximately one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually assaulted. That’s according to TeAngelo Cargile, injury and violence prevention coordinator of Milwaukee’s Health Department.
On Wednesday, Cargile emphasized the importance of sexual assault awareness at a Denim Day commemoration event. He also announced a federal grant that will inject money into the city to better respond to domestic violence and sexual assault, especially among Milwaukee s youth.
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April 28 is Denim Day, a worldwide campaign during which people are encouraged to wear denim to show support for sexual assault survivors. It is always the last Wednesday of April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness month.
Because of the sensitivity of the subject, the names of the survivors in this article have been changed. This article also contains references to sexual abuse and rape, and may not be appropriate for all readers.
Denim day started after the Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction where a woman was told that, since she was wearing tight jeans during the time of her assault, she must have helped her rapist remove them, thus giving consent.