THE PROJECT
80%
OF VICTIMS ARE UNDER AGE 30
44%
OF VICTIMS ARE UNDER AGE 18
17.7 million American women have been victims of attempted or completed rape.
2.78 million men in the U.S. have been victims of sexual assault or rape.
Reporting to Police
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68% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police
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98% of rapists will never spend a day in jail
Effects of Rape
Survivors of sexual assault are:
3 times more likely to suffer from depression.
6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
13 times more likely to abuse alcohol.
26 times more likely to abuse drugs.
4 times more likely to contemplate suicide.
These Stats, and to find more info, please visit RAINN.org
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THE HARD TRUTH
GIVING SURVIVORS
A VOICE TO BE HEARD
DEMANDING CHANGE & ACTION
Voices Carry is a new and upcoming Documentary Film Series dedicated to telling the real, raw, and uncensored survivors' stories, revealing the injustice, sexual assault victims often endure. The series intends to examine why there are so many untested rape kits across the USA and to address the need to end the Rape Culture we see so much of in society. The series hope is to give a Voice to those who have previously been unheard and detail the aftermath of living as a survivor of sexual assault.
Voices Carry hopes to act as an advocate for eliminating the Backlog of Untested Rape Kits, for expanding Mental Health Care Reform for Victims of all Sex Crimes, effective After-Care for Victims and their Families, and for Tougher Laws and Harder Sentences for those convicted of Sex Crimes. We are determined to spread the word that sexual violence will no longer be accepted or tolerated. We are also promoting a Common Sense Bill of Rights for Sexual Assault Survivors that protect all victims of sexual violence.
In addition to the film series, the Voices Carry website will also feature survivors' written accounts of their experiences.
(More likely to be seen here before videos are ready to add.)
The Voices Carry website will change and grow as new stories are added and public policies continue to change at local and federal levels.
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"In the past, the federal government estimated that hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in police and crime storage facilities across the country in what is known as the rape kit backlog. Each kit represents a lost opportunity to bring healing and justice to a survivor of sexual violence."
"Every two minutes, someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. With the crime of sexual assault, the victim’s body is a part of the crime scene. When the victim reports the assault to the police, a hospital or rape crisis center, a doctor or nurse will photograph, swab and conduct an invasive and exhaustive examination of the victim’s entire body for DNA evidence left behind by the attacker—a process that takes four to six hours to complete. That evidence is collected and preserved in a sexual assault evidence kit, commonly referred to as a rape kit."
Info was taken from http://www.endthebacklog.org