Many people don't know that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Well if ya don't know, now ya know!!
Current statistics are that an American is raped every 2 minutes. In case you don't feel like doing the math that's 30 every hour, 720 every day, and 262,800 every year.
Worldwide the numbers are 1 in 3 girls under the age of 18 and 1 in 4 boys under the age of 18. For adults it's 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men.
How many of these survivors do you know? How many of these survivors are our own loved ones? How many of us are survivors of sexual assault ourselves?
Stop the violence! Spread the knowledge!
The good news is that there has been a 35% increase in rapes reported to the police. Let's keep this trend going! Let's support our fellow community members by creating safe spaces for people to share their experiences, by educating ourselves on the facts about rape, and by sharing this information with our loved ones and the generations to come.
Check out these links and educate yourself!
http://www.ncjrs.gov/notices/ovw/saam/
http://www.sa.psu.edu/UHS/sexassault/assault.cfm
And a helpful site for anyone going through (or about to go through) legalities:
http://criminal.findlaw.com/?DCMP=KWC-G-PUBLIC
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Thank you for taking the time to post this.
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