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JanahX -> Number of States in Which Rapists Can Sue For Custody and Visitation Rights -- 31 -- (11/2/2012 8:20:04 AM)
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Im just continuously disgusted with politicians that make things like this possible. Its a sad note.
50 Facts About Rape
Low estimate of the number of women , according to the Department of Justice, raped every year: 300,000
High estimate of the number of women raped , according to the CDC: 1.3 million
Percentage of rapes not reported : 54 percent
A woman's chance of being raped in the U.S.: 1 in 5
Chances that a raped woman conceives compared to one engaging in consensual sex : at least two times as likely
Number of women in the US impregnated against their will each year in the U.S. as a result of rape: 32,000
Number of states in which rapists can sue for custody and visitation : 31
Chances that a woman's body " shuts that whole thing down ": 0 in 3.2 billion
Rank of U.S. in the world for rape: 13th
A woman's chance of being raped in college : 1 in 4 or 5
Chances that a Native American woman in the U.S. will be raped : 1 in 3
Percentage of women in Alaska who have suffered sexual assault: 37 percent
Number of rape kits untested by the Houston police force: 6,000-7,000 (Texas ranked second in nation for "forcible rape")
Number of adult men accused of repeatedly gang raping 11-year-old girl in Texas: 14
Quote in the New York Times regarding the rape: "They said she dressed older than her age."
Age of woman raped in Central Park in September, 2012: 73
Number of rape kits left untested in Detroit , listed by Forbes as one of two the most dangerous places for woman to live in the US: 11,303
U.S. state in which, in September 2012, mentally disabled rape victim was required to provide evidence of her "kicking, biting, scratching" in objection to her rape: Connecticut
State seeking to reduce childcare welfare benefits to women cannot provide proof of their pregnancy-causing rapes: Pennsylvannia
Percentage of sexual assault and rape victims under the age of 12 : 15 percent
Percentage of men who have been raped : 3 percent
Percentage of rapists who are never incarcerated : 97 perent
Percentage of rapes that college students think are false claims : 50 percent
Percentage of rapes that studies find are false claims : 2-8 percent
Number of rapes reported in the military last year: 16,500
Pentagon's estimated percentage of military assuaults not reported: 80-90 percent
Percentage of military rape victims who were gang raped/raped more than once : 14%/20%
Percentage of military rape victims that are men : 8-37 percent
Percentage of military victims who get an "involuntarily" discharge compared to percentage of charged and accused who are discharged with honor : 90 percent involuntary to 80 percent with honor
Chances an incarcerated person is raped in the U.S.: 1 in 10
Increase in chance that LGTB prisoner is raped: 15x greater chance
Number of men raped that could be counted as legally raped before the FBI changed its definition in December of 2011: 0
Number of rapes noted in commonly used World War II statistics: 0
Number of rapes of WWII c oncentration camp inmates : Untallied millions
Number of rapes of German women by Russian soldiers at the end of WWII: between 1m and 2m
Number of women raped in 1990s Bosnian conflict : 60,000+
Number of women raped per hour in Congo during war: 48
Country where 12 year old was forced to participate in the rape of his mother: U.S.
Country where women are imprisoned for being raped: Afghanistan
Age of Moroccan rape victim who committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist: 16
Worldwide number of "child brides" under the age of 18 forced to marry every day : 25,000
Ages of girls forced to marry a 59-year-old at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry in Arkansas : 8, 14, 15
Estimated number of people, primarily children, sexually abused by priests in the U.S. versus the number of senior Catholic officials found guilty of sexual abuse related crimes in the U.S.: 10,667 to 1
Chances that a woman in the U.S. is raped versus gets breast cancer : 2 to 1
Chances that a victim is " Emergency Raped " by a stranger versus percentage of victims who consider their rapes emergencies: 7 percent versus 100 percent
Percentage of victims of rape who report the use of a weapon : 11 percent
Prison sentences for four men found guilty of participating in gang rapes of two teenage girls in France over two years: one year, six months, suspended sentence
State where in 2012 a doctor is facing the loss of her medical license for providing an abortion to a pregnant 10-year old incest rape victim : Kansas
Country where doctors (but not the rapist) were excommunicated for performing a life-saving abortion to nine-year-old incest rape victim: Brazil
Country where major party's vice-presidential candidate wants to criminalize all abortions including rape-related ones, because rape is just " another method of conception ": U.S.
http://www.alternet.org/gender/number-states-which-rapists-can-sue-custody-and-visitation-rights-31-and-other-shocking-rape
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