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by kbelder
300 days ago
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>If you're an American, on your first day in high school, by your second class you have more than even odds of having met a pupil who had already been assaulted, most likely by someone close to the victim such as a relative. You're saying that the rate of sexual assault is.. a few percent? Too high! I agree. But it's bad form to give convoluted examples in order to give the impression that the actual number is worse than it is. |
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Specifically of pre-pubescents. This is already enough to exceed the prison capacity of any nation, including El Salvador.
If I had instead broadened to the under-18 rate of victimisation, about 11% of women are victimised: https://rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens
The lifetime risk is higher still.