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Group forms for victims of childhood sexual abuse Abuse statistics
BY CURTIS CREEKMORE
StaffWriter
news@louisvillecardinal.com
This semester U of L will wel­come
many new faces and groups
to the University of Louisville. An
organization lead by Laura Byrd of
the Counseling Center that is in­tended
for female students who were
sexually abused as children will begin
Physical plant
trucks targeted
in recent thefts
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More than $9,000 worth of tools
were reportedly stolen from three
university service vans parked in a
physical plant parking at 1800 S.
Floyd St. in rhe early morning hours
of Ja.n. 12.
"The tools were all hand tools or
power tools," said Philip Shaaf of
Physical Plant's heating, ventilation
and air conditioning department.
Shaaf's truck was one of those hit
in the heist.
"What was stolen was mostly
tools that will probably be pawned,"
Shaaf said. Shaaf also said he lost
about $2,000 worth of personal
tools in the burglary.
The thief, who is still at large,
reportedly made off with about
$4,609 worth of tools from one
vehicle, and about $3,727 and $669
from the other two vehicles.
Windows on the passenger sides
of two of the vans were reportedly
broken during the burglary as well.
No physical damange was reported
for the remaining van.
Shaaf said none of the stolen
tools have been recovered yet, and
that Physical Plant is now parking
the vans in front of the service com­plex
to prevent additional thefts.
Department of Public Safety of­ficials
declined to comment on the
investigation.
meeting later in January.
Byrd, a licensed clinical social
worker, said she has seen many ;igns
pointing to the need for a group
like this.
violence in adulthood had also been
abused as children," she said.
ences shared by the members.
"There are many benefits to group
therapy and some believe that it can
be more effective than individual
therapy," Byrd said.
·One in four girls is sexually
abused before the age of 18.
• One in six boys is sexually
abused before the age of 18.
"Last semester, while doing Out­reach,
a student came up to us after
our presentation and shared that she
had been abused as a child. I later
came across some research that said
that a large percentage of victims of
Byrd also stated that she noticed
many of her clients struggling with
depression and anxiety due to sexual
abuse in their childhood.
Meetings will be conducted
like regular group therapy sessions,
where the interactions between the
members and the therapist will be
discussed, along with past experi-
Byrd noted that some students
might still prefer to attend individual
therapy rather than group sessions.
• An estimated 39 million sur­vivors
of childhood sexual
abuse exist in America today.
"Not everyone is ready to work
See GROUP, page 2. Source: http://www.darkness2/ight.org
Belknap campus safety
Eight mo-peds have been added to DPS's fleet of vehicles to aid officers who are patrolling the Belknap campus. The mo-peds will allow
officers to cover more ground in a shorter span of time.
Mo-peds aid in campus patrols
BY MALLORY BowMAN
Assistant News Editor
mbowman@louisvillecardinal.com
The University of Louisville's De­partment
of Public Safety has added
mo-peds to its fleet of vehicles to
increase its presence on campus.
Eight Yamaha mo-peds loaned to
U of L by Louisville Metro Police's -
4th Division early last summer are
almost ready for campus use.
Maj. Kenny Brown of DPS said
four of the mo-peds will mainly be
used to increase patrol of the ·cam­pus
parking lots. Two of them will
be given to the parking division and
two were deemed unusable because
of mechanical failures.
DPS will be reaping the largest
benefits of the vehicles.
"The university was looking for
alternate means of patrolling the
campus and the 4th Division had
these mo-peds which weren't being
used," Brown said.
Maj. David Ray of the 4th Divi-sion
said when the county and city
governments merged in 2003, the
mo-peds were no longer needed.
"They were originally purchased
to patrol in the Iroquois Park area and
they fell into disuse," Ray said.
"Then, at a meeting with DPS, we
decided they would be useful to U of
L. Since they weren't being used, we
arranged to loan them out."
Brown said the mo-peds aren't
a direct response to recent campus
See MO-PEDS, page 3.
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