Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Toronto homeless beaten, raped

Today, the Toronto Star and CBC (and likely others) covered a health survey of Toronto's homeless population. The Star buried the detail below, and the 60-second CBC news report didn't mention it (reporting substance abuse rates instead). But it strikes me as a pretty shocking detail:

...and, in the past year, one in three [homeless people] has been beaten and one in five women has been raped.
Read on.

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