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Lisa Cohen - The Need for A Policy in the Developmental Disabilities Service System for Reporting Apparent Crimes to Law Enforcement Agencies

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April 1987

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Description

The Commission's review of an incident of sexual abuse of a young mentally retarded woman which went unreported to police after she told staff at the State-operated facility where she lived in Broome County, despite state law requiring reporting of possible crimes.