Sex Trafficking- The average age someone is sex trafficked in the United Stated is
13-years-old - 1 out of every 3 adolescents on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home according to the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children. (http://awakenreno.org/be-informed/the-problem/) |
Rape and Sexual assault |
- Every 92 seconds an American is sexually assaulted and every 9 minutes that victim is a child
(Stats from RAINN: www.rainn.org) - From 2009-2013, Child Protective Services agencies substantiated, or found strong evidence to indicate that, 63,000 children a year were victims of sexual abuse. |
domestic Violence- On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.
- 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-traumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, etc. (www.ncadv.org) |