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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Sexual Assault Epidemic No One Talks About: People with Intellectual Disabilities
NPR obtained unpublished Justice Department data on sex crimes. The results show that people with intellectual disabilities women and men are the victims of sexual assaults at rates more than seven times those for people without disabilities.
It's one of the highest rates of sexual assault of any group in America, and it's hardly talked about at all.
It's one of the highest rates of sexual assault of any group in America, and it's hardly talked about at all.
NPR's investigation found that people with intellectual disabilities are at heightened risk during all parts of their day. They are more likely than others to be assaulted by someone they know. The assaults, often repeat assaults, happen in places where they are supposed to be protected and safe, often by a person they have been taught to trust and rely upon.
Much more at:
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/570224090/the-sexual-assault-epidemic-no-one-talks-about
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The Sexual Assault Epidemic No One Talks About: People with Intellectual Disabilities (Original Post)
mucifer
Jan 2018
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)1. K&R.
Read this a moment ago when you shared it to an op of mine. Wow. Really lays it out there.
mucifer
(23,373 posts)2. yeah I felt it needed it's own thread.
irisblue
(32,828 posts)3. Glad you posted this. It does need it's own thread.
bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)4. For all of NPR's faults, they actually do some fantastic reporting
from time to time, and this is a great example of that.
get the red out
(13,459 posts)5. Couldn't help but notice
that her hateful, deceitful, thieving, rape abetting former caretaker is big into Church.