One Woman Raped Every Day In Ireland Last Month
January 2, 2008 (28 Responses)
I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING… if you’re anything like me you’re thinking “What the fuck?”
The statistic can’t be right. There must be some mistake right? Wrong.
Unfortunately it’s being reported over the airwaves tonight that last month the Dublin Rape Crisis centre had to help one woman per day during December ’07. Between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, the helpline received 12 calls from people who had been recently raped. That’s 31 people who were assisted by the crisis centre and brought to hospital to be treated, in just one month alone! Hell for all we know thats just for Dublin, never mind what happened around the country.
The really scary thing is that these statistics only represent those calls that were reported last month, not the actual figures. Experience suggests the actual numbers are quite a bit higher.
What the hell has happened to Ireland? I remember when a murder being reported on the radio was a big thing, a shock. Now there are murders every sodding day on every news bulletin. These rape statistics are frightening enough, but I did a bit of looking around after hearing of this report and discovered even worse statistics for Ireland as follows…
The scale of the problem in Ireland is probably best summed up by this extract from the One-In-Four website which has taken its statistics from the SAVI “Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland” report (2002):-
In Childhood
- 27 % of all Irish children, one in four, have experienced sexual abuse before the age of 17.
- 4.15% of all Irish children, almost one in 20, have been raped as children.
In Adulthood
- 21.25% of all Irish adults, one in five, reported sexual assaults as adults.
- 3.5% of all Irish adults one in 28 have been raped as adults.
Lifetime Experience
- 35% of all Irish women and men, one in three, have experienced sexual abuse or sexual violence at some point in their lifetime.
- 13% of all Irish women and men, one in eight, have been raped at some point in their lifetime.
- 19.5% of all women and men, one in five, have been subject to an attempted rape at some point in their lifetime.
Disclosure
- 47% of those who disclosed experiences of sexual violence as past or the SAVI research had never told anyone about their experiences of abuse.
- 60% of all young men, i.e. under age 30, had not previously disclosed the sexual abuse they experienced in childhood.
- Only 1% of all men and 7.8% of all women who have experienced sexual violence as adults have reported such abuse to the Gardai. This means that 95.7% of all sexual assaults of adults go unreported to the Gardai.
For more information on the above statistics browse on over to the stats page at One-In-Four; it makes for some shocking reading.
Just think about them for a minute. One in three Irish people will experience sexual abuse/violence at some stage in their life. One in eight will be raped and one in five will be subjected to an attempted rape at some stage in their lifetime.
And as if that wasn’t scary enough, while doing a little bit of reading up and research into these numbers for this post I came across yet another dimension to this problem that I really hadn’t considered before. The Rape Crisis Network Ireland website (RCNI) was somewhere I was searching for statistics and publications, but while looking at their home page I came across a link entitled “Worried someone might find out you’ve visited this site?”
Following this link results in a page of details dedicated to helping you erase your browsing history to the site to help protect you in case someone is watching your every move. How fucked up is that?
This is a serious issue folks and the main reason I wanted to post about this was to ensure that as many people as possible get some visibility on the statistics because it really shocked me that they had climbed so high. Something is seriously wrong in this country when a woman per day is getting raped, and that’s just the cases that are being reported.
Castration is too good for the fuckers that do this.
Sad but comparing it with our half a million women and children raped annually in South Africa the stats do not appear that bad. Sick world.
Bloody hell, that’s a terrible figure Jackie.
That’s horrible. I’m glad you highlighted the issue for all of us.
People who commit rape should have theie genitals removed and threw into jail for life. Unfortunity not all rapist are convicted for different reasons but to all victims hang in their you will get through it like i did.
I’m a romanian and thank God, there’s no rape problem in our towns and cities, the police is doing its job propperly, the jails are superfull, and the only rapes you hear of are in the rural areas, where noone goes, anyhow, and exclusively against non-foreign wemen. But I’m very worried about my and my wife moving to some other country, I’m doing reading on the safety levels in each country, the last thing I need in my life is my wife getting raped. So I’m asking you: HOW MANY OF THE YEARLY RAPES AGAINST WEMEN IN IRELAND ARE DATING RAPES, AND HOW MANY ARE COMMITTED BY STRANGERS? Because the number that would, obviously, worry me, is the latter one. Thanks a lot, and I’m praying for a safer world for wemen.
I’ve been there myself when I was 16 and it took me 4 years to finally confide in someone. I am 34 now and although it will always be there, as people who have it happen you try move on somehow.
I was alarmed the other day to see on the news that there are some people who believe that if you walk through a deserted area, flirt, or act a certain way that you are asking for it. Nobody does!!And we don’t report it for fear of a reprisal as I was threatened with, and also that I felt that I would’nt be believed and the truama of a trial.The law over here is not good enough.
I had’nt thought about it for a good while but that brought it flooding back and it incensed me that we feel that we can’t report it or talk about it.I woul like to hear from anyone who feels the same or has gone through it.xx
catherinebyrne3000@yahoo.co.uk{even though i’m a dub!}
I am student in UCC studying Youth and community work and when I watched this
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eve_ensler_on_happiness_in_body_and_soul.html
i was prompted to sign up to organise The Vagina Monologues. Although this project specifically targets women all violence is wrong. We are having 4 productions in Cork – 3 in the City and 1 in Kinsale to raise awareness about violence.
PRESS RELEASE
The Vagina Monologues has become a world-wide phenomenon. This award-winning play by Eve Ensler has been staged all over the world, often with celebrity monologists. In 1998, Ensler launched V-Day, a global non profit project that has raised over $60 million for women’s anti-violence groups through fund-raising performances.
The Monologues are read by a varying number of women. Each one relates to the vagina. Every year a new monologue is added to highlight a current issue affecting women around the world. This year’s spotlight focuses on the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape is being used as a systematic weapon of war. This is a play which uses dialogue about the vagina in its many uses, and facets, from sexual to reproductive, from pleasurable to abusive. It calls both men and women to protect our sisters/mothers/daughters/girlfriends/wives/friends from violence.
Red Sandstone Varied Productions (http://rsvp.blog.com/) will produce The Vagina Monologues, directed by Kinsale woman, Yvonne Coughlan, in three venues in Cork and The White Lady, in Kinsale, during April 2009, with a Grand Finale on the top floor of County Hall. This is a non-profit community event organised by Cork woman, Gráinne O’Driscoll, and featuring 19 women living in Cork city and county, which will raise funds for organisations supporting women in violent situations.
The vision for this production, says director Yvonne, is:
â—To promote the joy of being a woman as we show the true cost of violence against women.
â—To highlight the injustices women suffer, but not to portray them as victims.
â—To showcase the beautiful, intelligent, stylish, sexy, powerful, emotive, multi-talented and multi-faceted women of our community, and so of the world at large.
â—To welcome men and women equally to this event, which serves to protect us all from violence, and raise awareness and funds for these issues at home, and in the world community.
â—To generate love, laughter, friendship and discussion, and share this with an audience.
â—To impassion people so that they go on to find ways to stop the violence all women around the world.
90% of proceeds from this fundraising event will go to local charities which aid Cork women and girls, who suffer violence, Domestic Violence Centre, Sexual violence Centre, YANA (You are not Alone), Mna Feasa with 10% donated to aid women in the Congo (DRC). http://newsite.vday.org/drcongo
Dates and venues of the Cork Community performances:
Monday 27 April The Pavilion, Carey’s Lane 8pm – €15/12
Tuesday 28 April The White Lady Kinsale, 8pm €15/12
Wednesday 29 April The Crane Lane Theatre, 8pm €15/12
Thursday 30 April The Vertigo Suite, County Hall, 8.00 €25/20 – Grand Finale!
Each performance lasts 90 minutes, and will be followed by further entertainment, musicians, DJs, dancing, for everyone to join in and celebrate the 11th year of V Day.
For further details: contact Yvonne Coughlan, coughlan_yvonne@hotmail.com
or myself
Grainne O’Driscoll
werise@hotmail.com
You should always carry pepper spray with you go. If you can’t carry pepper spray in your country then you should carry something else that can do damage to the eyes or respiratory system. Examples:
1. Strong perfume.
2. Hair spray.
3. Deodorant spray.
Any of these will do damage to the assailants eyes and respiratory system giving you time to get away.
Randy,
Thank you so much for that invaluable advice. you can’t carry pepper spray in ireland but a deoderant can is a great idea. I will feel a lot safer, and I had never thought of it.
i think rape is sick..the world has gone to the dogs..i am a victum of rape and its already been a month and i still havnt slept a wink..
having nightmares..
anger fits..
depression..
its all just not fare and something should be done about it.
I am deeply disturbed by the amount of rape I see in Irish based films, and the fact that the blame and shame is still placed on the female in most cases. As an American, it’s hard for me to imagine having to deal with that, as we have fairly decent laws and forensic practice towards rape. Keep fighting for your rights, not just as woman, but as human beings. Human beings, regardless of sex, should never be forced into sex or sexual situations.
One point to be made here, I am deeply disturbed as well, by the comment made by another individual about the comparison on rape in one country vs. another country. I don’t think it’s right to diminish the suffering of one group by saying another group has it worst off. As if they are not suffering just as much as the people in the other country do. Whether it is one woman a day, or a 100 woman a day, this is too much in any country.
“One woman a day” over the Christmas period. Phew! I though you meant like every day of the year. You know that was my first impression. The DRC centre is in the business of rape propaganda. Their funding depends on it. So I’m not surprised they highlight a time of year when the figures are very high due to heavy drinking. Dare I suggest heavy drinking on the part of some women who put a good night out ahead of taking sensible precautions about their personal safety. Hey, if they want to get fall down drunk in a mini skirt and lie on the street with their legs open it’s still not their fault. Right? What the DRC is not so quick to publicise is that rape nationally has fallen massively every year since 2007. Look for the statistics in the RCN documents and good luck with that because they have them well buried. Since 2007 reported rapes have fallen by over 60%. Why? We don’t know why. Maybe it’s because, due to the recession, less women are going out half naked and getting drunk to the point of collapse. But whatever the reason it has the bejasus scared out of the rape counselling and propaganda industry because for them the word funding is much more terrifying than rape.
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