The majority of sexual assault survivors are women between nineteen and twenty-nine years of age. Over 50 percent of all sexual assaults occur between people who have met before. Sexual assault often occurs in the survivor's own home during daytime hours. Most survivors of sexual assault consider the assault a violent act which deeply affects their lives. Answers to the Above Quiz.
Sexual assault is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States.
The FBI estimates that a sexual assault takes place every six minutes. It is estimated that one in every three or four women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime, one out of every seven wives will be sexually assaulted by her own husband, and one in ten children will be sexually assaulted during childhood. The largest majority of survivors are teens and young people. However, babies as young as a few months old and people in the nineties have been sexually assaulted. Anyone can be a target for sexual assault.