UNITED KINGDOM
The Northern Echo
Dispelling myths around sexual abuse – rapists don’t look like Jimmy Savile and victims are never to blame, according to charity
By Joanna Morris
A NORTH-EAST charity is calling for more to be done to dispel myths around sexual and domestic abuse ahead of the international Eliminate Violence Against Women Day on Monday November 25.
Figures from 2010 showed more than 160,000 women living in the North-East have experienced domestic abuse and almost 150,000 have suffered sexual assault.
Since then, The Centre – a rape and sexual abuse counselling centre covering Darlington and County Durham – has seen demand increase by 100 per cent.
Despite this, many cases of rape and sexual abuse still go unreported.
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