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Report tracks sexual assaults on high school-age girls

According to recent national research conducted by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention [1], 10.5 percent of all high school-age girls have been sexually assaulted, the Huffington Post reports. And in the state of Indiana, those numbers are considerable higher than nearly anywhere else in the country. 17.3 percent of girls in grades nine through 12 in the state have reported experiencing rape or sexual assault. Julie Heiman, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, told the Bloomington Herald-Times [2] that she was “shocked” by the numbers. But these statistics may not even reflect the true scope of the issue. CBS Chicago noted [1] that because 50 percent of sexual assaults against women are unreported, it’s difficult to estimate the actual number of instances…

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