Sexual Assault Program
WHAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT?
Sexual assault is any forced, tricked, or manipulated sexual
conduct, touch and/or penetration against a person's will. The offender may be a member of the other sex or
one's own sex. There may be one offender or several. The victims of sexual assault may be young or old,
female or male, single or married, urban or rural... no one is immune.
Sexual assault is an act of violence and power; NOT sexual intimacy or uncontrolled desire. This type of abuse can happen anywhere; in your home, at work, in your car; and is most often committed by someone the victim knows and may trust. The effects of sexual assault may be lifelong and devastating, whether it occurs once or repeatedly.
In America today, WOMEN are on the edge of violence.
CONSIDER:
Every 15 secondes a women is assaulted and beaten.
4,000,000 women a year are assaulted by their partners.
Every day, 4 women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends.
A women is raped every 1.3 minutes.
61% of all rapes are women under 17 years old.
29% of all rapes are women under 11 years old.
1 out of 8 Hollywood films has a rape motif.
92% of women in prison (in the last 10 years) had less than $10,000 a year income.
80% of women in prison have children.
Prison terms for killing husbands are twice as long as for killing wives.
93% of women who killed their mates had been battered by them.
67% killed them to protect themselves and their children at the moment of murder.
25% of all crime is wife assault.
60% of all domestic violence victims are beaten while they are pregnant.
70% of men who batter their partners sexually or physically abuse their children.
38% of women have been abused sexually by an adult relative,
acquaintance or stranger before they are 18; 28% before the
age of 14.
The amount spent to shelter animals is 3 times the amount spent to provide emergency shelter to
women from domestic violence situations.
Domestic violence is the number one cause of emergency room visits by women.
Sources: WAC Stats: The Facts About Women (The New Press); Women's Work Programs, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
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