Sexual assault is a serious issue all
around the world.
According to Canadian website SexAssault.ca,
it’s estimated that of every 100 incidents of sexual assault, only six are
reported to the police. It added that one in four North American women will be
sexually assaulted in their lifetime and that 60 per cent of sexual
abuse/assault victims are under the age of 17.
It said that 80 per cent
of assailants are friends and family of the victim and more than 80 per cent of
sex crime victims are women. Statistics Canada reports that Saskatchewan’s per
capita rate of intimate partner violence is more than double the national rate.
It might be easy to
interpret these statistics as just numbers, but in reality, we should all be
horrified at these incidents. We can’t imagine what it would be like to go through
an experience like that.
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