Sexual Assaults On Campus-Most Involve Drugs Or Alcohol
Post by Bryan Buckner
Here's a story about campus Sexual Assaults where US representative Pat Meehan R-Delaware, convened regional experts on campus safety last month to discuss the issue and come up with policy recommendations on how to narrow the gap between the number of actually assaulted women and the number who choose to report it.
Nearly 20 percent of women attending college are sexually assaulted or victims of an attempted assault, yet only between 5 and 12 percent of them report the attacks.
"That gap is staggering," he said. "That amount of victims is eye-opening. We have a responsibility to work collaboratively to assure that we not only prevent future sexual assault in an environment like a college setting, but we are able to respond more effectively to those victims."
Many women are under the influence when the attacks occur, he said, resulting in "incapacitated assault."
"Incapacitated assault means that there has been alcohol, drugs, some other kind of agent that may have influenced the ability of parties to be appropriately responsive," Meehan said Monday.
It has been estimated that as much as 70% of all sexual assaults on college campuses involved drugs or alcohol or both.
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