The Hodgenville Police Department is teaming up with community partners for a sexual assault awareness event Monday evening.
Hodgenville Police Chief James Richardson says tonight’s event expands on the “sextortion” presentation the department gave to the public in late March.
“We’re going to give a presentation,” Richardson said. “It’s going to start at 6 p.m. at the Extension Office here in Larue County up on Old Elizabethtown Road, and what we will do is we’ll start out with basically what are the issues that we’re seeing here in our community and then we will talk about how HPD investigates those.”
Richardson said the event ties into April being Child Abuse Awareness Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The ultimate goal of the event is to share information and connect people with resources.
“If anybody wants to come, we encourage in-person, that way you can actually meet and see everybody,” Richardson said. “You’ll get to see some of the sexual assault investigators from the police department. You’ll get to ask questions. Any questions that we have from the community, they can email me questions. They can go on our Facebook page and message me questions that they want answered, and we’ll try to address those there in the presentation.”
The event will be recorded for anybody unable to attend in person.
