TOOELE — Community members and experts gathered Tuesday night to discuss resources for victims of sexual violence in their community.

Tooele County has one of the highest rates of reported sexual assaults in Utah, more than double the national average, according to the Rape Recovery Center.

Executive Director Gary Scheller said that police would conduct about half a dozen forensic exams every year in Tooele, but those numbers have doubled since the Tooele office of the Rape Recovery Center opened just over a year ago.

“We need people to know that the services are here [and] are confidential and free,” Scheller said.

“We get sexual assault survivors who call and say it happened the night before. We get people who call about something that happened 20 years ago, and they never reached ou

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