The statistics speak for themselves…
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1 out of every 4 girls and 1 out of every 6 boys in the US have been sexually assaulted before the age of 18
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90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way; 68% are abused by family members.
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88% of child sexual abuse is never reported to the authorities; of those that have been reported, one in every 7 victims of sexual assault is under the age of 6.
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The United States has the world’s highest rape rate of the countries that publish such statistics. It’s 4 times higher than Germany, 13 times higher than England, and 20 times higher than Japan.
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Every 45 seconds in the United States, someone is sexually assaulted.
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In 2002, approximately 15-33% of females and 13-16% of males were abused by the age of 18 in the United States.
