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Every ninety seconds,
somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. (RAINN calculation
based on 2000 National crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice
Statistics, U Department of Justice,) |
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Rape is the fastest growing violent crime in the U.S. |
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1
in 3 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. |
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1 in 6 women report rape or attempted rape at
sometime in her life. |
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1
in 4 girls will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18. |
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1
in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18. |
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Approximately 68% of rape victims knew their assailant. 28% of victims are
raped by husbands or boyfriends, 35% by acquaintances, and 5% by other
relatives. 29% of female victims reported that the offender was a stranger.
(US. Dept of Justice) |
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73%
of those forced to have sex fail to recognize their experience as rape. |
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Women aged 12-34 are at the highest risk for being sexually assaulted. Risk
peaks in the late teens: girls 16-19 are four times more likely than the
general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.
(2000 NCVS) |
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95%
of rape victims are female. |
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70
- 80% of all sexual assaults are committed by people known by the victim. |
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Women of all races are equally vulnerable to attacks by intimates. |
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1
in 7 married women are raped by their husbands. |
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One
out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or
completed rape in their lifetime (National institute of Justice and Ctrs.
For Disease Control and Prevention, 1998,) |
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In
1999, one in every 10 rape victims was male. (1999 NCVS) |
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In
1996, only 31 % of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law
enforcement officials, less than one in every three. (US. Dept of Justice) |
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Only about 1 in 10 sexual assault victims reports the crime committed
against them. |
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FBI
statistics list the false report rate for rape as only 2-5%, the same as the
rate for other felonies. |
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Only one percent of male students who rape are prosecuted. (US Dept of
Justice) |
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Sexual Assault in Alabama
2005 |
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In
2005, there were 1,515 rapes reported. (4 each day). |
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46% of the reported rapes were juvenile victims (under age 17). |
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Only 36% of all the rapes committed were reported to law enforcement. |
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This means the actual number of rapes in 2005 was 4,197 (11 each day). |
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68% of rape victims knew their offender. |
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The age of the victims ranged from 2 to 80, with the average age being 21. |
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State of Alabama Sexual
Assault Statistics 1999
Reported by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center |
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1,380 rapes were reported in Alabama in 1999. |
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The
average age of victims in Alabama was 22.2: range 1 year to 81 years. |
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Average age of offenders is 28.3 years, with range from 10-77. |
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In
68% of the rapes, the victim and offender knew or were related to each
other; in 11% they were strangers; in 21% the relationship was unknown. |
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29%
of assaults occurred in the victim's residence, 16% in the offender's
residence. in the offender's vehicle, and 5% at the residence of a friend or
relative of the victim. |
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51%
of the victims submitted to a medical exam. |
