Sexual Assault Statistics

• Each year 1 million women suffer nonfatal violence by an intimate partner.
• 4 million American women experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during an average 12-month period.
• Nearly 1 in 3 adult women experience at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood.
• 2005 two thirds of rapes and sexual assaults took place between 6:ppm and 6:00am
• FBI 2004 Crime in the United States report showed the highest percentage of rapes occurred in March, April, May, June, July, august , and October
• 1 in 12 women will be stalked during her lifetime, of those. 77% know their stalkers
• FBI reports a forcible rape in this country every 5 minutes, 1 in every 6 American women have already been a victim of rape or attempted rape
• Survey showed that 54% of rape and attempted rape victims are under 18 and almost 22% are under the age of 12
• A woman is raped every 46 seconds in America... that's 78 rapes each hour!
• Every day, four women are killed by their abusive partners
• 25% of girls and 17% of boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 18 years old
• 14% of all American women acknowledge having been violently abused by a husband or boyfriend
• From 1992 to 1993 29% of all violence against women by a lone offender was by an Intimate
• 75% of domestic homicides occur after the victim has left the perpetrator
• 28% of all homicides of women are domestic violence related
• 95% of reported domestic assaults the female is the victim and the male is the perpetrator
• 75% of every rape is committed by a man that the victim knows
• 25% of rapes take place in a public area or a parking garage