More than 80% of rape and sex assault cases filed in Allegheny County end in convictions. Advocates believe one category of survivor is frequently dismissed by prosecutors.
“The name has kind of become a little bit of an albatross around the school and an irony,” says the principal, and the school should “serve our community and students where they actually are.”
The town hall followed the University of Pittsburgh’s release of a crime alert
on Oct. 6 describing an alleged sexual assault in the Cathedral of Learning
three days earlier.