Little Known Self Defense Facts

Index of the pages in the Trinity Defense website:

• One in every six women will be a victim of sexual assault. You probably know several women who have been the victim of a sexual assault you just don’t know who they are.
• Rape is the most unreported crime in the United States.
  
• Most reports state a rape occurs every five minutes, some are reporting that it has increased to one every two minutes.
  
• Most women (84%) are raped by someone they know – a date, an acquaintance, a neighbor, a relative. These rapes generally go unreported; in fact over half never get reported.
  
• More than 60% of rapes occur in a person’s home.
  
• Any sex act forced against another person is rape. It doesn’t matter if the victim was able to fight back or not.
  
• College age women are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted.
  
• Approximately 85% of women escape attempted sexual assaults if they dynamically and rapidly resist physically.
  
• Most women do not think about rape prevention until after it has happened to them or someone they love.