Women's safety: crime figures reveal risks women face in Sussex
MORE than 1,000 women and girls in Sussex reported rape in a year, police figures show. Of the 1,679 rape cases recorded in the county in the year to March 2020, 89 per cent involved female victims, as did 78 per cent of 1,884 sexual assaults dealt with by the force in that time. There were almost 20,000 crimes flagged as domestic abuse by officers in that period – the equivalent of 11 in every thousand people being violently or psychologically abused by someone they know. The most recent official statistics at police force level also show 21 women and girls were killed in the area ...
Source: theargus.co.uk