“Beyond losing your child, hearing that they have been acting out sexually against other children is the worst news you can get,” says Janet Routzen, executive director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
In addition to providing services and shelter to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society provides sexual assault advocacy services, conducts education and outreach among community and youth groups and helps coordinate counseling. In 2014, it conducted a community-needs assessment with the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) that found “the overall rate of sexual assault was extremely high on the Reservation and that youth sexual behavior problems, including child-on-child sexual assault were a serious issue that needs to be addressed.”
[For more of this story, written by Mary Annette Pember, go to https://indiancountrymedianetw...t-hopelessly-broken/]
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