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If you are in immediate crisis in Hancock County, Maine, Please contact Downeast Sexual Assault Services free, confidential 24 hour hotline at 1-800-228-2470.

The information on these pages is for anyone who has been, or is still being sexually assaulted, raped, incested, or for anyone who knows someone who has been, or is being sexually assaulted, raped, or incested. The information on these pages can be useful for people interested in learning more about sexual assault.

Anyone can be sexually assaulted, and it does not matter if you are weak or strong, withdrawn or outgoing, young or old, male or female, gay or strait, NO ONE DOES ANYTHING THAT JUSTIFIES BEING RAPED OR SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. It is important to understand that sexual assault is about power and control and not about sexual passion.