Statistics

• Somewhere in the U.S. a woman is raped every two minutes
• 66% of rape victims know their assailant
• 93% of sexual assault victims under the age of18 know the perpetrator
• of these, 34.2% were family members and 58.7% acquaintances - Only seven percent of the perpetrators were strangers to the victim

• While about 80% of all victims are white, people of color are more likely to be attacked:
• In 2002, seven out of every eight rape victims were female
• Homicides of women while they are pregnant is a leading cause (in some studies, homicide is the leading cause) of death during pregnancy
• 20% of women who die from pregnancy-associated deaths are murdered
• 30% of all homicides of women are committed by intimate partners - usually after they have separated - making leaving dangerous
• More than 8% of pregnant women report physical violence in pregnancy by intimate partners or family members
  
• 30% of lesbians report having experienced sexual assault or rape by another woman
• Females accounted for 39% of the hospital emergency department visits for violence-related injuries in 1994 but were 84% of the persons treated for injuries inflicted by intimates