Nearly one in five of all women in England and Wales report that they have been the victim of a sexual offence since the age of 16, according to a new official analysis.
The study says there are about 473,000 adult victims of sex crimes every year and, while most involve unwanted touching and indecent exposure, they include 60,000 to 95,000 victims of rape.
The first joint statistical overview of sexual offending in England and Wales by the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and Office of National Statistics confirms that only a very small proportion of sexual offences lead to a conviction. In the last three years court statistics show an average of 5,620 offenders convicted each year for all types of sexual offences, with 1,070 convicted for rape.
The estimate that there are 473,000 victims of sexual offences every year, of whom 400,000 are women, is drawn from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. It estimates that there were 97,000 victims of the most serious sexual offences last year, of which there were around 69,000 female victims of rape. The analysis adds that 90% of such victims knew the perpetrator.
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Hmm wonder what the sex of all those predators is? Obvious is it not – they are all martians!!! That is why this joint report cannot name sex of those rapists/sexual predators because we women mustn’t know there are martians on our planet seeking out women to rape and commit sexual violence against. Am I being sarcastic? Of course I am because we all know it is males who are the ones subjecting approximately 400,00 women aged between 16-59 to male sexual violence each and every year, but we musn’t say or so or even name sex of all these perpetrators must we?
To recycle a recent comment of mine, everything about male dominated rape culture is about invisibilising men as agents of harm; women get raped, and murdered, and abused, but there’s nobody actually responsible for doing it, it’s a force of nature women bring down upon themselves.