NEW CITY – The Rockland County District Attorney’s Office has been awarded a $270,000 federal grant over a three-year period to fund a full-time victim specialist for the DA’s Special Victims Center.
Executive Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Devlin, head of the Special Victims Unit said,” With this grant, our team will be able to provide additional services to those who are victims of horrible crimes. We will never allow those most vulnerable to fall through the cracks.”
The program will be centralized within the Special Victim’s Unit, which prosecutes crimes involving domestic violence, sexual assault, physical and sexual abuse of child, as well as those crimes committed against other vulnerable members of our population.
“The news of receiving this grant will be a monumental advantage for our Special Victims Unit to have a full-time victim specialist on staff. Rockland residents who are victims of sex abuse or domestic violence will be benefactors of this grant. As we all know, we can never do enough for crime victims,” said DA Thomas Walsh.
