1.   Lipovskaya said Syostri includes members such as herself, who are trained counselors, but they have no place to counsel abuse victims.

2.   She started doing volunteer work and through her church began counseling rape victims and battered wives.

3.   Stories like this do not surprise those who counsel victims of financial crimes.

4.   Other activists have received death threats from people demanding they stop counseling rape victims or investigating their cases.

5.   After seven years of counseling rape victims over the telephone, Suzuyo Takazato had heard her share of horrifying stories.

6.   FTC representatives counsel victims on how to check with credit reporting agencies to protect their credit histories and finances.

7.   Once freed, he returned to El Tiempo, but on the side he founded a group that counsels kidnap victims and has advocated tougher government anti-kidnap policies.