More than 80 per cent of [rape victims] said they did not report their assault to the police, while 29 per cent said they told nobody – not even a friend or family member – of their ordeal.
Unreported rapes: The silent shame (via Hannah)
At least 10 times as many girls are now trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported to the New World in the peak years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Twenty-one per cent of Sri Lankan males who were seen at a London torture treatment centre reported sexual abuse while in detention. In El Salvador, 76% of male political prisoners surveyed in the 1980s described at least one incidence of sexual torture. A study of 6,000 concentration-camp inmates in Sarajevo found that 80% of men reported having been raped.
Forty percent of female juveniles in custody report being victims of sexual abuse.
Females [in prison] were substantially more likely than males to report that since the age of 16 years, they had been subjected to at least one form of sexual violence (29% versus 2%). Women were also more likely to report that they had been subjected to such sexual violence on more than one occasion (22% versus 2%).
Twenty two percent of women reported having engaged in vaginal or anal sexual activity with a partner who threatened violence (compared with <1% of men); 21% of women reported having been subjected to actual violence during sexual activity (versus 1% of men); and 18% of women reported having had a partner who used their weight or size to immobilise the participant during sexual activity (versus 2% of men).
An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year.
7,464 sexual offence incidents were reported to NSW police in 2007. Of these, 1,383 (18.5%) were investigated within 180 days and resulted in criminal proceedings.
In 2007, 1,139 people appeared in NSW courts charged with a sexual offence. Of these, 295 (26%) were found guilty and received a custodial sentence.
The progress of sexual offences through the NSW justice system
Finally, in January, the Justice Department published its first plausible estimates [of sexual abuse of inmates]. In 2008, it now says, more than 216,600 people were sexually abused in prisons and jails and, in the case of at least 17,100 of them, in juvenile detention. Overall, that’s almost six hundred people a day—twenty-five an hour.
However, only 3.4% of those 216,600 estimated incidents of abuse translated to “official allegations” of sexual abuse. 0.4% (less than one thousand) were later substantiated by authorities. Of those involving corrective officers, 23% of allegations resulted in an arrest, and only three percent of officers with a substantiated allegation of abuse against them were charged, indicted, or convicted.
The highest sexual assault rate was 5.36 per 100 Minnesota girls aged 13-17, meaning 1 in 19 girls was assaulted.
![Young people are especially likely to become victims of sexual assault. More than half of the total costs [to Minnesota] ($4.1 billion) resulted from sexual assaults on children aged 0-17.Assaults of females accounted for 76% of the sexual assault costs.
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Young people are especially likely to become victims of sexual assault. More than half of the total costs [to Minnesota] ($4.1 billion) resulted from sexual assaults on children aged 0-17.
Assaults of females accounted for 76% of the sexual assault costs.
Miller, T., Taylor, D., & Sheppard, M. (2007). Costs of Sexual Violence in Minnesota.
The best estimates put the prevalence of sexual abuse of boys at just over 5 per cent of the population and girls at 25 per cent.
Almost three times as many Indigenous than non-Indigenous children were diagnosed with an STI, despite Indigenous people making up 3% of the total population.
