GUAM
Pacific Daily News
January 6, 2018
By Haidee V. Eugenio
With Guam having the second-highest number of rape per capita in the nation, advocates against sexual assault and family violence want to help change that by organizing training sessions this month on prevention and addressing cases.
Guam’s only rape crisis center, Healing Hearts Crisis Center, reported serving 903 victims of sexual assault between 2008 and 2015, according to the Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence.
In 2015, the rape crisis center served 137 victims. Seventy-seven percent of them were minors, the coalition said.
The national rate for reported rape is 25.2 per 100,000 people. But on Guam, there are 64.2 reported rapes per 100,000 people, the coalition previously stated.
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