Rape

The violation is of big importance in the global legal scheme, being considered a serious offense that is contrary of a series of fundamental human rights.

Those who commit this crime are called "sex offenders." These attackers make use the force (physical or emotional) to dominate or intimidate their victims in order to satisfy your desire or sexual drive. A determining factor for the crime of rape is punishable factor is the absence of consent of the victim.

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration perpetrated against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or against a person who is incapable of valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, or below the legal age of consent.

Exist 3 types of rape these are:

1. Domestic: when the rapist is a member of the family, they are generally by stepfathers and uncles.

2. Induced: the raped accepts based on lies

3. Unconscious: when the person is in a state of intoxication or drugged in which the person does not know what he does

Some important facts about the violation are:

• Approximately 112,000 women are raped each year, that is equivalent to one every 4.6 minutes, and most rapers go unpunished, according to experts.

• The raped woman in case of be pregnant, can take the decision of abort only in the Distrito federal and the product can not have more than 12 weeks of gestation.

• The typical rape victim is a woman of 16-24 years old

• In most cases, the victim knows the rapist.

• Very often, the rapist is a man of 25-44 years old who plans his attack and usually chooses a woman of the same race.

• Alcohol is involved in more than 1 in 3 violations.

• More than half of the rapes occur in the victim's home

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