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mucifer

(23,373 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:12 AM Jan 2018

The 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NPR obtained unpublished Justice Department data on sex crimes.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.



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 OP
K&R. NCTraveler Jan 2018 #1
yeah I felt it needed it's own thread. mucifer Jan 2018 #2
Glad you posted this. It does need it's own thread. irisblue Jan 2018 #3
For all of NPR's faults, they actually do some fantastic reporting bullwinkle428 Jan 2018 #4
Couldn't help but notice get the red out Jan 2018 #5

bullwinkle428

(20,626 posts)
4. For all of NPR's faults, they actually do some fantastic reporting
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:29 AM
Jan 2018

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
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 11:07 AM
Jan 2018

that her hateful, deceitful, thieving, rape abetting former caretaker is big into Church.

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