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Sexual Assault

Every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. In addition to rape and sexual coercion, other forms and behaviors of sexual assault include exhibiting chronic jealousy, accusing one's partner of affairs, having affairs, treating one's partner as a sex object and withholding sex. There are victims of some form of sexual assault in every city and every state in America today. Sexual assault is any unwanted sexual act done by one person to another. Statistics show that most abusers are men and most victims of sexual assault are women. According to The American Medical Association (AMA) “sexual assault continues to represent the most rapidly growing violent crime in America, claiming a victim every 45 seconds” and because many of these attacks go “unreported and unrecognized, sexual assault can be considered a “silent-violent epidemic” in the U.S. today” (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001537.html Sexual Assault: The......

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