Assaulted Mothers Shouldn't Have to Prove They Were Raped (E petition)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/693/680/275/dont-make-assault-victims-needing-child-assistance-prove-they-were-raped/?z00m=20420435

Can you imagine having to regularly interact with your rapist in order to get care for your baby? In New Mexico, it could happen soon.


Target: New Mexico's Governor Martinez and Children, Youth and Families Department
Sponsored by: Susan V

Susana Martinez’s administration (NM) wants rape victims seeking child assistance to prove they were raped.

Hints of this attack on victim began last March, when Martinez named April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month but added the word “forcibly” with rape, implying that some rapes were less legitimate than others.

Now, Martinez's administration has now proposed changes to NM applications for childcare assistance. Current policy protects mothers who are rape victims from having to deal with their assaulters in order to obtain child support. But the changes would make mothers prove that “forcible rape” had occurred.

The new policy would move the state “backward toward victim blaming,” say activists.

[w4rma]

1. Innocent until proven guilty. Sorry. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. kick