A Study on Sexual Assault Victims Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital of Eastern India

Sexual Assault in Ballari, Karnataka, India: A Four Year Retrospective Review

“…Pal et al [19] reported that 8.55% of victims were sexually assaulted by family members. In our study, all the male victims were sexually assaulted by familiar people, which corroborates with the study of Demireva et al [16] and Bandyopadhay et al [14].…”

“…In our study, the majority of the victims were males (65.11%) followed by females (34.88%). These results are in contradiction with previous studies undertaken by Bhowmik and Chaliha [7] Tamuli et al [2], Sarkar et al [5] and Bandyopadhay et al, who reported that most of the victims were females [14].…”

“…Bandyopadhayet et al [14], Parveen et al [25], and Tamuli et al [2] found that 63% of the victims were unmarried. Suri and Sanjeeda [22] revealed that 96% victims were unmarried and only 4 % were married.…”

“…But the real problem lies in the high attrition rate, with only 14% of reported cases resulting in trials [11,12]. This is because 9% of cases are classified as false allegations [13][14][15]. One third of reported cases fail to pass the investigation stage due to evidence issues or victim credibility [16][17][18][19][20].…”

An Analysis of Psychological Perceptions of Survivors of Sexual Assault

“…The possible reasons for forceful sexual offense are the advantage of loneliness, seduction by the accused or taking revenge for the past conflict. Some studies documented 4%-6% cases of non-consensual sex offenses were by putting the survivor under the influence of alcohol/drug intoxication [ 11 , 16 ].…”