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“Survey data from 1995 to 2011. We found that the estimated rate of sexual assault and rape of female college students, ages 18 to 24, was 6.1 per 1,000 students. This is nothing to be proud of, but it is significantly lower than the rate experienced by women that age who don’t attend college —”

“Of 478 sanctions meted out for sexual assault, 12 percent were expulsions and 28 percent were suspensions, according to the data. The rest were reprimands (13 percent), counseling orders (12 percent), community service orders (4 percent) and other, unspecified types of punishment.

Whilst for many women pregnancy is a happy time, for almost one in four it turns out not to be so enjoyable.

“There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you,” the estranged husband at the center of this case posted on his Facebook page. We hope the court will agree that women need protection from this kind of threat.