At hospital, majority of sexual assaults are left unreported

Victims in Howard hospital?s Safe Room must decide whether their experiences will be among the approximately 60 percent of sexual assaults that go unreported in the United States every year.

“They don?t want their lives laid out in court. Sometimes they will come to the ER and change their mind before we get there,” said Sharon Coburn, a certified forensic nurse and coordinator of the Howard County General Hospital?s sexual assault program.