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Statistics on rape and other acts of sexual assault are commonly available in industrialized countries, and have become better documented throughout the world.Inconsistent definitions of rape, different rates of reporting, recording, prosecution and conviction for rape can create controversial statistical disparities, and lead to accusations that many rape statistics are unreliable or misleading.
In a case control study, for example, of 191 adolescent girls (mean age 16.3 years) attending an antenatal clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, and 353 non pregnant adolescents matched for age and neighborhood or school, 31.9% of the study cases and 18.1% of the controls reported that force was used during their sexual initiation. When asked ...
Peterborough sex abuse case; Plymouth child abuse case; Rochdale child sex abuse ring; Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal; Sexual abuse scandal in the English Benedictine Congregation; Telford child sexual exploitation scandal; Cases of sexual abuse within groups include: BBC sexual abuse cases; United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal
A record high number of girls in high school have experienced sexual violence in the past year. New data from the CDC says in 2021, 1 in 5 (18%) of girls in grades nine through 12 grade ...
It includes harassment and rape, as well as the use of children in prostitution or pornography. [37] [38] Sexual violence is a serious infringement upon a child's rights, and one which can result in significant physical and psychological trauma to the victim.
Around the time of the 2012 attack, police were recording up to 25,000 rape cases a year across India, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). There were more than 31,000 ...
The humanitarian news organization IRIN claims that an estimated "500,000 rapes are committed annually in South Africa [145] once called 'the world's rape capital.' [146] The country has some of the highest incidences of child sexual abuse in the world with more than 67,000 cases of rape and sexual assaults against children reported in 2000 ...
Reports of horrific sexual assaults on women have become familiar in India, where police recorded 31,516 rape cases in 2022, a 20% increase from 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.