It's a story so common, it never even made it into the newspapers. A year-old woman who lives in a middle class neighborhood on one of Salt Lake City's busiest streets let her dog out one warm fall night as she always did. When he began barking furiously in the driveway, she ran outside to see what was wrong. As cars sped by, a masked man grabbed her and put a knife at her throat. Without saying a word, he pulled her by the arm, pushed her into her house and threw her on the bed. The dog ran in the house behind them, barking frantically. The man threw the dog against the wall, then raped the woman. He told her that if she screamed, he would "Nicole" her.
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Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness
Men raped by women are subjected to social and legal double standards. The number of sexual violence victims reported to authorities rose from in to 2, in , according to an annual report by the Gender Violence Recovery Centre GVRC. But whereas women and girls bear the heaviest brunt of sexual and physical violence, the report shows that men and boys are increasingly falling victim to rape, with 26 men and 29 boys cases being reported in Though these cases involves rape by fellow men, whether some men are assaulted by women remains a subject of fierce debate, with most men saying it is not possible for a woman to rape a man. Yet, men can indeed be raped by women. In , police in Zimbabwe charged three women who had been found in possession of 33 used condoms, with 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault. For two years, before the famous arrest, women in Zimbabwe had targeted male hitchhikers whom they drugged and extracted semen from. At least 17 men positively identified the women who had assaulted them in a Harare court. One victim reported that after the rape, some women demanded that they cuddle and talk.
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It is only a myth in our society that men are not sexually assaulted, or that they are only sexually assaulted in prisons. Furthermore, estimates from the U. These reports are also thought to be underestimates due to the barriers male survivors face in the reporting process: the U. Department of Justice records an average of greater than 12, reported sexual assaults of men annually, and predicts that if unreported assaults are included, the actual number of men who are sexually assaulted in the United States each year is approximately 60, U. Department of Justice, Additionally, while these numbers include only males over the age of 12, the Department of Justice records that a male's age of greatest risk of sexual assault is age 4.
Registered in Ireland: A bizarre chain of events saw a man strip naked and chase three women in Cork city, sexually assaulting one of the women at the door of her apartment where it was his intention to rape her. The jury will resume their deliberations tomorrow. The facts in relation to what happened at lunchtime on January 12 in and around an apartment building in Cork city were not in dispute. The question the jury had to decide was whether or not he was suffering from insanity at the time and was thereby not guilty by reason of insanity. The defence called Dr Francis John Kelly, consultant forensic psychiatrist, who concluded that the accused was driven by a functioning mental disorder at the time of the incidents.
