Evidence rules leave disabled Canadian girls open to sex abuse

From a Vancouver Sun article, here are the highlights:

"Canadian girls and women with disabilities are up to 10 times more likely to be sexually assaulted or exploited than other girls and women. Overwhelmingly, their attackers are the people they trust most.

During their lifetimes, research suggests, 83 per cent of women with disabilities are sexually abused; 80 per cent of female psychiatric in-patients will be physically or sexually assaulted.

Before they turn 18, 40 to 70 per cent of girls with intellectual disabilities will be sexually exploited.

In three out of four cases, the assailants are doctors, teachers, parents and caregivers, or the friends of those trusted individuals."

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