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No sexual assaults were reported during Country Thunder in Kenosha County this year, something that gives hope to volunteers with a sexual assault awareness group that worked the festival.

“I don’t want to pat myself on the back,” said Rebecca Rodriguez, a forensic nurse at Aurora Medical Center. She said the awareness campaign can’t take all the credit.

Still in recent years there has been a trend of increasing reports of sexual assaults at Country Thunder, with 10 being reported last year.

Rodriguez and other forensic nurses with Aurora were joined by volunteers from Women’s and Children’s Horizons and the Carthage College Health and Counseling Center in a campaign at the country music festival to raise awareness and encourage individuals to step up and intervene if they see a sexual assault or think one may occur.

The initiative was part of the White House’s “It’s On Us Campaign.” Volunteers at the festival had concert-goers sign a pledge to take action if they saw a sexual assault happening.

“I think our presence out there really made some type of difference,” Rodriguez said.