Wasilla was the only town in Alaska to engage in such practices. Was this Sarah Palin's way of paying down the $20 million in debt she ran up as mayor?
From WBALTV:
When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the city billed sexual assault victims and their insurance companies for the cost of rape kits and forensic examinations.
Palin had been in office for four years when the practice of charging rape victims got the attention of state lawmakers in 2000, who passed a bill to stop the practice.
Former Democratic Rep. Eric Croft, who sponsored that bill, said he was disappointed that simply asking the Wasilla Police Department to stop didn't work. Croft said he doubts she was unaware of the practice.
...Alaska routinely has the nation's highest rate of sexual assault.
Lawmakers became involved in 2000 when reports began coming in that police departments were charging sexual assault victims for the kits and the forensic exams, which cost from $300 to $1,200 at the time. The kit, a package of sample containers, swabs and other medical supplies, is used to collect evidence from women after they are attacked.
Then-Gov. Tony Knowles said Thursday that Wasilla was unique in the state in charging rape victims for the cost of doing the law enforcement necessary for solving the crime.
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2 comments:
Hey idiot - no need to blow your chunks over this. It's all a lie. Do your research before you post this garbage - including on the definition of libel, and how republication of lies makes you as liable as the person who first published them.
Good luck to you and your socialist candidate.
First of all, Barack Obama is not a socialist. Get your definitions straight. You show yourself to be uninformed when you throw around labels and don't know what they mean. Tell me specifically WHY you call Obama a socialist... go into his policy and give me specific ones that you think are socialist.
Calling Obama a socialist without any factual positions to back yourself, is in fact libel against Obama, and if I were you, I'd be careful about spreading lies and defamation against Obama on the Internet.
Secondly, the Palin story is from a mainstream news organization, not something I made up.
You can also go to Factcheck.org's web page to read more:
http://tiny.cc/SfNUG
But of course, you're going to blame this on the liberal media so I don't know why I waste my time.
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