Rapes way down

  • Last Updated: 3:34 AM, March 8, 2013
  • Posted: 1:29 AM, March 8, 2013

WASHINGTON — The rate of sexual violence against women and girls age 12 or older fell 64 percent in a decade, the Justice Department reported yesterday.

From a peak of five rapes or sexual assaults per 1,000 women in 1995, rates fell to 1.8 per 1,000 in 2005, a figure unchanged to 2010.

Women’s groups credited wider public and police awareness.

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