One in four women will be raped in their lifetime. This means your friends, sisters, mothers, and daughters. Seven to ten percent of adult males are survivors of sexual abuse or assault. Persons between the ages of 15 and 25 are the most vulnerable to date or acquaintance rape. Statistically, the beginning of a student's college career is the time of highest risk for sexual assault.
Sexual assault can happen to anyone.
It is not confined to any race, class, age group, or gender. Contrary to popular belief, false reports of rape are rare. In fact, only one in six rapes are ever reported to police, making it the most underreported violent crime in the U.S. Rapists are motivated by hostility, fear of inadequacy, and the need to control. They use sex as a weapon to hurt, humiliate, and intimidate those they assault. Rape and attempted rape are punishable by up to twenty years imprisonment.