- One in three victims of sexual assault is under the
age of 12. - Every two minutes someone in this country is sexually assaulted.
- One of every four girls and one of every six boys are sexually assaulted every three minutes.
- One in three women will be raped in her lifetime.
- Child-victims of rape know their offender prior to the incident 90% of the time (Greenfield, 1996).
- Juveniles are responsible for victimizing 40% of the child sexual assault victims under six years of age (Snyder, 200).
- Women with a childhood history of sexual abuse are 4.7 times more likely to be subsequently raped (Merrill, et al., 1997).
- Female adolescent abuse survivors are more likely to develop eating disorders - 18% binge and purge, while only 6% of non-abused adolescent girls do so - and are more likely to use illegal drugs - 30% compared to 13% of teenage girls who were never sexually abused (The Commonwealth Fund, 1997).
- Girls who were raped are about three times more likely to suffer from psychiatric disorders and over four times more likely to suffer from drug and alcohol abuse in adulthood (Kendler, et al., 2000).