{"id":943,"date":"2019-11-21T18:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/11\/21\/20191118safety-concerns-heightened-as-sexual-assault-occurs-near-quinnipiac-campus\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:23:33","slug":"20191118safety-concerns-heightened-as-sexual-assault-occurs-near-quinnipiac-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/11\/21\/20191118safety-concerns-heightened-as-sexual-assault-occurs-near-quinnipiac-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Concerns Heightened as Sexual Assault Occurs Near Quinnipiac Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About a week and a half ago, a harrowing incident occurred right on the doorstep of Quinnipiac University. A Quinnipiac student told the Hamden Police Department that she was sexually assaulted on November 9. The incident occurred on the intersections of Mount Carmel Ave and New Road. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The student told police that the incident occurred as she was walking along the road around 11 p.m., when two white males in their 20s asked if she wanted a ride. She said that upon entering the vehicle, one of the males sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Quinnipiac\u2019s Chief of Public Safety, Edgar Rodriguez, issued a detailed statement last week to the Quinnipiac student body on the issue that described some of the details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:949.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:65.75342559814453%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2019-11-18-20.59.01.png\" alt=\"Edgar Rodriguez sent this email to the Quinnipiac University community\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2019-11-18-20.59.01.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2019-11-18-20.59.01.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"949x607\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Edgar Rodriguez sent this email to the Quinnipiac University community\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5dd34c838ca6f6715d2fc5c2\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\">Edgar Rodriguez sent this email to the Quinnipiac University community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Despite the incident, Quinnipiac students don\u2019t seem too concerned about their safety levels when on or around campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI feel like this area is pretty safe,\u201d QU student Kyle Carbutt said. \u201cBut I\u2019m sure it\u2019s safer to live on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got security gates, and\u2026 well, it\u2019s a campus,\u201d Carbutt added with a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Other students seemed perplexed by the victim\u2019s decision to get in the car in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI was a little shocked,\u201d student Caroline King said. \u201cI also thought it was very interesting that she got into a stranger\u2019s car to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Though the assault is a serious issue, it\u2019s not the only trouble that the Hamden area has seen recently, as there was a shooting in Hamden the following Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Carbutt, though, still believes that the area is safe to live in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI know Hamden is a big town,\u201d Carbutt said. \u201cBut I feel like our area &#8211; the Quinnipiac area &#8211; is pretty tight and pretty safe, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week and a half ago, a harrowing incident occurred right on the doorstep of Quinnipiac University. A Quinnipiac student told the Hamden Police Department that she was sexually assaulted on November 9. The incident occurred on the intersections of Mount Carmel Ave and New Road. &nbsp; The student told police that the incident &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/11\/21\/20191118safety-concerns-heightened-as-sexual-assault-occurs-near-quinnipiac-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safety Concerns Heightened as Sexual Assault Occurs Near Quinnipiac Campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qnn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}