Reporting about a victim

I spent a six hour shift in the newsroom today and I hadn’t written anything for that day until the second I walked in the door at my house. There was a release from the police that a woman was sexually assaulted late Saturday night. I wrote up a quick summary of the report for my ACE and he told me that I should keep the release as minimal as possible when it comes to details. The release did not have much information and I had to be careful of racial profiling and identifying the victim before the perpetrator was arrested. I think this was a good learning experience because not only do we learn in class on how to report on a rape or sexual assault, I was able to learn the concept first hand in a deadline setting.