Between 1980 and 2022, around ** percent of families in the United States reported to have had an event of incest in the family, while around ** percent of rape victims who were children were raped by someone in their own family. Only ** percent of incest victims reported the crime to law enforcement.
This statistic shows the rate of sexual assault victims of police-reported family violence in Canada in 2016, distinguished by province. Among all provinces of Canada, 'Nunavut' had the highest rate of sexual assaults by family members with 111 victims per 100,000 population in 2016.
In France in 2023, around one French person out of ten declared they were victims of an incestuous situation, at least once, during their childhood. Most of these people were women and only ** percent were men.
When looking at estimates of the number of people reporting incest in France between 2009 and 2020, it appears that the number of reported victims increased from * million to *** million during the period studied. It can be assumed that this increase is not necessarily explained by a greater occurrence of these crimes, but by a relatively freer speech of the victims, who are relatively less afraid to testify about the violence they suffered in their childhood.
In 2023, Texas had the highest number of forcible rape cases in the United States, with 15,097 reported rapes. Delaware had the lowest number of reported forcible rape cases at 194. Number vs. rate It is perhaps unsurprising that Texas and California reported the highest number of rapes, as these states have the highest population of states in the U.S. When looking at the rape rate, or the number of rapes per 100,000 of the population, a very different picture is painted: Alaska was the state with the highest rape rate in the country in 2023, with California ranking as 30th in the nation. The prevalence of rape Rape and sexual assault are notorious for being underreported crimes, which means that the prevalence of sex crimes is likely much higher than what is reported. Additionally, more than a third of women worry about being sexually assaulted, and most sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone the victim knew.
In 2022, about 194,164 perpetrators of child abuse in the United States were white. In that same year, about 83,314 perpetrators of child abuse were Hispanic, and 25,092 were of unknown ethnic origin.
In 2021, 107 abortions in Poland were performed after prenatal tests or other medical reasons indicated a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable life-threatening disease. Moreover, in 32 cases, the procedure was performed because the pregnancy threatened the life or health of the mother. There were no cases of abortion because there was a reasonable suspicion that the pregnancy was a result of a criminal act (such as rape or incest). Since 1995 the number of legal abortions in Poland has significantly decreased.
The current Act of 1993 allows for abortion when the pregnancy poses a threat to the life or health of a woman, or there is a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable disease threatening its life, or when the pregnancy is the result of a prohibited act (rape or incest). In the first two cases, termination of pregnancy is allowed until the fetus can live independently outside the mother's body. Regarding a prohibited act, if no more than 12 weeks have passed since the beginning of the pregnancy.
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Between 1980 and 2022, around ** percent of families in the United States reported to have had an event of incest in the family, while around ** percent of rape victims who were children were raped by someone in their own family. Only ** percent of incest victims reported the crime to law enforcement.