Australia’s most shocking statistic: Sexual abuse and domestic violence against women with disabilities

Jane has an intellectual disability, and over her lifetime she’s suffered unrelenting sexual and physical abuse by six different male perpetrators.

She is far from alone. On the contrary, 90 per cent of intellectually disabled women in Australia have been sexually abused. Read that again. Ninety per cent.

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Topics:
Discrimination, Human Rights

Author:
Ginger Gorman

Source:
news.com

Date published:
Tue 22nd Mar, 2016