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Students studying abroad face dangers with little oversight

A Jamaican police report sums up what happened on the last night of Jenee Klotzs semester abroad her junior year of college: She was robbed, sexually assaulted and stabbed while walking back to her host familys home. She says she spent nine hours in a Kingston hospital, and the next morning, the programs academic director dropped her at the airport â?? still wearing pajama bottoms and with dried blood on her neck and chest. Klotz, 23, knows that no program can guarantee 100% safety. But two years later, she and her family remain bitter about the way they say the incident was handled.