Back in April 2009, two teen rape victims were turned away, and told to come back later, because there wasn't a nurse on-duty at the time.

Memphis City Council members say money is missing from the center as well.  Both the City Council and the Shelby County Commission voted in June 2009 to hand off responsibility for the center from the City to the County.

“You don't forget the person, you don't forget the incident.  You don't forget,” said Helen Collins.

Collins was raped 24 years ago, and says she didn't get counseling and care at the time of her attack.

“In my attack, I was in the military.  I thought I was protected, but I really wasn't.  I was taken someplace by someone who was over me,” Collins said.

 

That's something she doesn't want to have happen to rape victims who try to get help from the Memphis Sexual Assault Resource Center.

“Look for glitches anywhere before we say, this is how it's going to be.  I learned a lot today,” said Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton.

For now, MSARC will keep using Le Bonheur for children under 14.  That could all change in 90 days.

“At least not cut the children out of MSARC.  We do need the children to see in order to continue training our same nurses.  It has really stopped our training because we don't have the children clients,” said MSARC manager Betty Winters.

She says several nurses who were forced to leave because of residency requirements have come back, but she says the center still has a lot of problems.

 

“It had been awhile since they had had a manager and I think things had fallen through the cracks, sometimes when you are lacking staff.  We are fully staffed,” Winters said.

 

Collins says she hopes the focus is brought back to the victims.

“When your help begins, your healing begins,” Collins said.

 

The Shelby County District Attorney's Office started conducting an audit on the center, after council members said money went missing.  The investigation isn't complete.