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   From: chatter448@nospam.hotmail.com   
      
   "Michael Snyder"  wrote in message   
   news:49f5e5a1$0$95519$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   > editor@netpath.net wrote:   
   >> How do YOU know this - if they went unreported - unless you were   
   >> either the rapist or the victim in every one of these "cases?"  Sounds   
   >> like just another made-up "statistic" some advocacy group with an   
   >> agenda puts out.   
   >   
   > The justice department knows perfectly well how many rapes go   
   > unreported -- at least they know better than the women's   
   > advocacy movement does.  Rape *is* more under-reported than   
   > most comparable violent crimes -- but not by that much.   
   > To say that most rapes go unreported is a gross exaggeration.   
      
   I think when family or friends (or a trusted one in the clergy) are involved   
   in the rape that it more often goes unreported, at least in the past.   
   Kids don't want to be responsible for their parents going to jail, families   
   don't want the scandal, or the victims had the fear nobody would believe   
   them.   
      
   I also think men/boys tend to under-report because of the stigma attached of   
   having a gay rape, or if it's with a woman (i.e., teacher), a male victim is   
   more apt to be teased, or think he might be.  I'm speculating, of course.   
   But I don't find that hard to believe at all.   
      
   I have known several aquaintances over the years during my childhood and   
   adulthood, both male and female, that claim they were molested/raped as   
   children or teens, and didn't report it, or one of their parents didn't   
   report it.  I knew one girl, when I was in the fourth grade, that confided   
   to me that she was raped by her young adult step-brother.  Her mother found   
   out when she noticed sperm on her clothes.  Her mother packed the step-son's   
   clothes up in a box and tossed him out of the house.  No cops were called.   
   I really don't think that is, or was, all that uncommon.   
      
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