RAINN
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The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is an American anti-sexual assault
organization, the largest in the United States. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims, and to ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
RAINN was founded in 1994 by Scott Berkowitz and Tori Amos
. Tori Amos was the organization's first spokesperson. Christina Ricci
is RAINN's current national spokesperson and a member of its National Leadership Council.
phone service that automatically and anonymously links callers to the nearest RAINN-associated rape crisis center with a counselor able to respond to the call. More than 1,100 local partnership are associated with RAINN to provide sexual assault victims with free, confidential services. Since 2008, RAINN has provided anonymous, on-line crisis support through its National Sexual Assault Online Hotline via instant messaging
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Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an assault of a sexual nature on another person, or any sexual act committed without consent. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a woman, it may involve any combination of two or more men, women and children....
organization, the largest in the United States. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims, and to ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
RAINN was founded in 1994 by Scott Berkowitz and Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
. Tori Amos was the organization's first spokesperson. Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci is an American actress. Ricci received initial recognition and praise as a child star for her performance as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values , and her role as Kat Harvey in Casper...
is RAINN's current national spokesperson and a member of its National Leadership Council.
National Sexual Assault Hotline
The National Sexual Assault Hotline is a 24-hour, toll-freeToll-free telephone number
A toll-free, Freecall, Freephone, 800, 0800 or 1-800 number is a special telephone number which is free to the calling party, and instead the telephone carrier charges the called party the cost of the call...
phone service that automatically and anonymously links callers to the nearest RAINN-associated rape crisis center with a counselor able to respond to the call. More than 1,100 local partnership are associated with RAINN to provide sexual assault victims with free, confidential services. Since 2008, RAINN has provided anonymous, on-line crisis support through its National Sexual Assault Online Hotline via instant messaging
Instant messaging
Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
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See also
- List of anti-sexual assault organizations in the United States
- Rape in the United StatesRape in the United StatesNearly 90,000 people reported being raped in the United States in 2008. There is an arrest rate of 25%.United States Federal Law [Title 10, Subtitle A, Chapter 47X, Section 920, Article 120] defines rape as:...