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General Rape Statistics

  • Every 2 minutes a woman is raped in the U.S.
  • 72 of every 100,000 women are raped in the U.S. each year.
  • 28% of women are raped by boyfriends.
  • 35% of women are raped by acquaintances.
  • 5% of women are raped by relatives.
  • Less than one third of all rapes are reported to the authorities.

Rape Situation Statistics

  • 25% of rapes take place in a parking garage or public area.
  • 68% of rapes occur between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
  • More than 45% of rapists were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Rapists used a weapon in 29% of all rapes.
  • The victim received external injuries in over 47% of all rapes.

Youth Rape Statistics

  • 15% of rape victims are under the age of 12 (another source said as high as 22%).
  • 29% of rape victims are between the ages of 12 and 17.
  • 44% of rape victims are under the age of 18 (another source said as high as 54%).
  • 80% of rape victims are under the age of 30.

College Rape Statistics

  • 25% of college women have been victims of rape.
  • 8.5% of college men admit to sexually abusing women - but don’t consider that rape.
  • Of the women who were raped, only 25% described it as rape.
  • Of the women who were raped, only 10% reported the assault.
  • 47% of the rapes were by dates and romantic acquaintances.

Date Rape Statistics

  • 84% of women who were date raped knew their attacker.
  • Women who are 16-24 are more than four times as likely to be date raped.
  • 90% of date rapes occur when either the victim or attacker was drinking.
  • 33% of men said they would date rape someone if it could go undetected.
  • 44% of women who were date raped have considered suicide.

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:) blessed be

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How about looking onto Pak stats on rape, if you can find any. What u fail to report is the number of convictions for rape in the US and a omparative study with Pakistan. Most importantly, does the US Govt/local bodies/religious groups authorize and justify rape?

Rape in any country by any person is reprehensible, what makes it worse is when the victim cannot ask for justice or is forced to commit suicide. Think about that before digging up this dirt, Pakistani backyard stinks with such acts of violence which never see the light of day.

Frankly, speaking this is a warped way of debating issues, as they say two bads do not make a right.

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^^ What he said..... make it double..

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I am not aware of any comparative study in Pakistan,if u are,enlighten us.
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US Govt/local bodies/religious groups authorize and justify rape?

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Neither does Pakistani local bodies./govt/religious groups

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Rape in any country by any person is reprehensible,
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Indeed it is,thats why u shud not be outraged by readung these stats.

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Frankly, speaking this is a warped way of debating issues

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I am not debating any issue,i just said that a similar serious problem exists in US.
Readers are free to make their own judgement.

By the way there is a Mukhtaraan Mai of US,read a bit about her:

Leaders, soldiers should put an end to military sex assaults
By the Rev. Dorothy H. Mackey

I'm a former U.S. Air Force captain and commander, and I know what it's like to be sexually assaulted in the service.

Within my first five years of service, I was raped three times, twice by military doctors during ob/gyn exams and once by a trusted first sergeant with 25 years in service.

I knew I wasn't alone. One noncommissioned officer came to me and stated that our own military men were purposely targeting newly assigned military women to get them drunk to rape or gang rape them.

So I'm not surprised by the accusations that dozens of servicewomen courageously stationed in Iraq have been raped by our own servicemen. But I am appalled.

And I'm not surprised that 24 women stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas have allegedly been assaulted by fellow soldiers. But I am appalled.

A silent war is being waged against many military members, and yet our leaders have done little about this.

You would have thought that the Pentagon would have learned from the 1990 Tailhook Scandal, in which 83 women were sexually assaulted. The military did adopt a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct. But since then, more than 15 sexual abuse scandals have occurred without criminal consequences.

This fosters a climate of sexual predation.

According to testimony by military officials on Feb. 25, 112 women have reported sexual misconduct in the last two years in the Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan theaters alone. Some said they faced retaliation for reporting the assaults.

This scandal cannot be tolerated.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has called for an investigation. But that is not enough when the Department of Defense itself is part of the problem.

President Bush ought to issue an executive order establishing an independent agency to investigate this problem. The agency should hire advocates, survivors and civilian specialists. Its mission should be to root out the facts, provide victim services and recommend policy changes.

With our troops facing danger every day in combat, there can be no tolerance of assaults by their own.

The Rev. *Dorothy *Mackey** **is executive director of STAAAMP (Survivors Take Action Against Abuse by Military Personnel), and former U.S. Air Force captain and commander.

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i love these smacks keep up ionoclast

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The religious and governmental groups of Pakistan do promote rapes. They have not removed the Hudood Ordinance and Zina laws which allow rapists to get away after a rape. This increases rape stats.

As for why there is no comparative study - there should be. Another mistake on Pakistan's parts that they don't even have comprehensive statistics for the matter.

Women are close to 50 percent of the population. Why hurt them with laws that don't deliver justice to them?

That, and many other reasons, are why you people are mostly NOT in Pakistan right now.

And if you are, I bet you've already tried to get some foreign visa to leave the country.

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So Jirga’s are not local bodies? those religious fundos who sanction these acts are not religious groups? Hudood ordinance promulgated and practiced in Pakistan is not part of the PAk Govt?

Get your facts straight, u seem to lack even the basic knowledge of PAK society and its problems…

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Which religious fundo sanctioned this act?
LB...........Ok i thought u r taklking about municipalities

What has Hudood Ordinace has to do with rape.

Look at the US statistics.........they do not have Hudood Ordinance!

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Icono the big difference btw US and Pak is that if a woman gets raped here, by law she is promised justice. Whether it is delivered is another story. In Pakistan, the laws prevent her from going to the police. The main problem with Hudood Ordinance is that it does not distinguish between rape and adultery/fornication.

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What does Hudood Ordinance have to do with rape???????????????

Oh wow, you know so little. Run along now.

Kamran Khan and I talk.
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I have no hesitation to accept that US justice system is perhaps i million time better than ours
However
this shud not prevent us from seeing the other side of story,and,that is women ARE being raped in US at an alarmingly high rate,the US justice system is such that 2/3rd do not report,rapes in US army are covered up to avoid media attention

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^ no they are not being covered up to avoid media attention. THe media always is talking about rapes. Open an American TV channel and you'll see.

RApe exists in America. Yes. It exists everywhere.

So what is your point?

I think, your point is to say, "look, Pakistan is not the only one".

Well good for you. What a crappy approach. I bet if your own mother was raped, your approach would change in a jiffy.

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Okay, the other side of hte story in this case would be the villagers or the jigra/panchayat, the peopel who ordered the attack. No country is perfect of course not, but wiht something like this, at least hte US promises justice whereas Pak doesnt. Theres a million reasons women won't report a rape, and the military, from what you posted, esp is abhorrent. However htat doesn't change the fact that many innocent women in Pak are punished because of "religious laws" that are not religious at all.

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My point PCG is that u shud also direct part of ur a$$ to other places where poor women need attention from feminists.

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Women in America are getting attention from feminists, the police, the hospitals, community workers, psychologists, their families, and the government.

Pakistani women are not getting that. Many times, even their family neglects them in a rape case. They aren't seen as fit to marry. And many times these rape victims become victims of honor killings.

Attention needs to be directed to Pakistan on this Pakistani BB.

Directing attention to American women, to excuse Pakistan's problems is not the solution. You are sick, Iconoclast, like most of the other mullahs here.

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I think in my entire posts i never claimed that we in any sense r doing a good job of it.In ur other thread bout her i sympathised with her and i always will,i however do not understand OUTRAGE of some if US rape statistics r presented,does this in any way under-mine Mai's position?Or does it wash some fi;th off our societi's face?US have their filth on their face and nothing wrong in pointing it out and Pakis have theirs

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So someone comes up with somethin sensible -- are all these freakin complainin Pak folks listenin?

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Why are you concerned with US stats on rape? Do you live in the US?

Do you have female family members that live in the US?

Fikar not, they’ll be ok, if they take precautions. A lot of rapes happen now, majority wise, because the right precautions were not taken. :k:

So there is no need to further discuss this, unlike with Pakistani rape incidents.

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I do not live in US and do not live in Pak either,i have as many relatives in US as in Pak.

Not proper precautions ? Huh
What precautions will u advise these US army ladies:
Yuriria Acuna Pineda of the US Navy now lives in Los Angeles . . . homeless. A young Mexican-American woman of very meager economic resources, she has been unable to find help for her mental problems due to the brutal rape inside a bathroom by another sailor by the name of Roger Northern II in June of 2001. The US Navy investigator by the name of Kevin O'Neil concluded that* Yariria had** *"asked for it"! **

In 1991,Medic Susana Armenta was activated for Operation Desert Storm. She was at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs doing laundry when she walked back into her room and suddenly felt a huge shove.

"I remember seeing a face and blond hair. I know the person was very heavy because I was hurting so bad," she recalled.

She remembers few details of the rape itself, but can recall waking up the next morning feeling numb. "I went to the bathroom and saw the blood and the stickiness and the bruises," she said. "I took the longest shower of my life, and that was it."

Weeks later, she realized she had contracted a sexually transmitted disease from the assault, she said, and was treated by a doctor. After the rape, Armenta returned to work. "I drank wine to keep myself under control. I was so scared I would see him again. One day at work I began crying hysterically. I asked for a chaplain, and the next thing I knew I was admitted to the psychiatric hospital."

*Arabella Rivera came from a military family. Her brother was in the Air Force and her father in the US Army. Ms. Rivera , at age 18, joined the Air Force, and was sent to Lowry Air Force Base. Naive and innocent as most Catholic girls, the white military beasts started conspiring against her. Her first orders were to wear short skirts. She had been in photography school at the base for about three months when she was set up for a sexual assault. An officer she trusted forced her to perform oral sex in his car. "I didn't know what the hell he was doing. He grabbed me and pulled me down. ... He wouldn't let me go. I was choking. I thought I would die," she recalled. *

After that night, her life was in shambles and she began to drink heavily to relieve her shame. A few days later, walking home from the airmen's club, the same man followed her to a remote part of the base and sodomized her. She said she screamed and cried until he let her go. The next week, when a master sergeant followed her into a bathroom and began putting his hands up her shirt, she "freaked out," she said. He stopped, and told her the incident never happened, and that life would be hell if she told anyone. Arabella Rivera was subsequently assaulted numerous times. After one incident she was forced to work with her attacker. Arabella Rivera has had intensive therapy, but had to drop out after an extremely traumatic session.

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