One in 10 girls around the world - or about 120 million in total - have been forced to have intercourse or take part in other sexual acts, with rates higher in sub-Saharan Africa than other regions, according to the United Nations.
10 Indian men are in custody after a 21-year-old woman was raped by two apparently unrelated groups of men on Christmas Eve, BBC News reported. She is being treated and is reportedly in stable condition.
A drunk Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski, the officer in charge of the U.S. Air Force's effort to combat sexual assault in the military was arrested over the weekend for allegedly grabbing a woman by the breasts and buttocks in a parking lot not far from the Pentagon, officials said on Monday.
Three California teenagers, who were accused of raping Audrie Pott, are facing charges of sexual battery, CNN reported Weeks after the alleged rape at a house party in Saratoga on September 2, Pott subsequently committed suicide, humiliated after they reportedly posted photos of her
While chairing her first subcommittee hearing, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand made it a priority to go after the "problem of rampant rapes, sexual assaults and sexual harassment in the military." The estimated number of cases would be close to 19,000 if all subjects were to step forward, but officially 2,500 cases of sexual violence were reported in 2011.
