Statistics Alaska's rape rate is 2.4 times the national average. In the U.S., a woman is raped every 45 seconds. Only one in ten rapes are reported.
Rape remains the most under-reported of all violent crimes.
One in five adult women will be raped at some point in her life. One in 3.5 adult women will be attacked by a rapist. A woman is ten times more likely to be raped than to die in a car crash. One in four female and one in six male children will be sexually assaulted before they are 18 years old. Alaska has six times the national average of reported child sexual assault.