VOICe of Butler County set up a booth to recognize Denim Day, part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, at Diamond Park in Butler on Wednesday. The day is held annually in April.

Employees with Victim Outreach Intervention Center Wednesday morning handed out free coffee and cupcakes in Diamond Park for Denim Day.

Denim Day is observed on a Wednesday in April around the world each year and takes place during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

It was started in 1990 in protest after an Italian judge overturned a rape conviction against a man because the victim was wearing skin-tight jeans and he said that by helping the man remove the jeans, it became considered consensual sex.

The cups, coffee and cupcakes were donated by Pennie's Bake Shop in Butler, said Briana Gloeckl, VOICe volunteer and outreach advocate.

VOICe offers counseling and services to victims of sexual assault and other crimes.

“A lot of people don't think it happens in their community and we know that it does,” Gloeckl said.

In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, at the end of March VOICe employees brought cookies, “thank you” cards and bracelets containing the center's hot line to the state police barracks in Butler Township, the Butler city and township police stations and the Cranberry Township police station.

For more information, visit www.voiceforvictims.com.