Half of the victims of sexual violence in Catalonia are girls

  • During the first quarter of 2021 the Mossos attended 533 women who suffered a sexual assault

Half of the victims of sexual violence treated by the Catalan police were under 18 years of age. These are the data that the Mossos have published in relation to sexist violence suffered by women, which only reflect the statistics for the first quarter of this year. In this ambit all acts of a non-consensual sexual nature are included by women using violence, intimidation or emotional manipulation. It thus includes rape or attempted rape, but also non-consensual touching or exhibitionism.

During the period January-March 2021, which is up to where the data published by the Mossos reaches, every day six victims went to the police station to report a sexual assault in Catalonia. In total, 533 women reported acts of this type during the first three months of the year and the Mossos found 388 aggressors. Of all these victims in 2021, 119 were girls under 12 years old, and 145 adolescents between 13 and 17 years old, 49.5% of the total.

The data for this first quarter of the year, in the absence of those for the rest of 2021, are slightly higher than in the same period of the previous year, although it must be taken into account that in mid-March the world, and society, was paralyzed by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. During the first quarter of 2020, 487 women addressed the Catalan police as victims of sexual violence. 39% of them were under 18 years of age. In total, in 2020, each day 4.4 victims approached the Catalan police to report crimes of sexual violence. Of them, 37% were minors.

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One of the most serious and heartbreaking cases that occurred this year was the rape of a minor in Igualada on November 1. A 16-year-old girl from Vilanova y la Geltrú was abandoned in a field, naked, with serious injuries to her genitals and a skull fracture. The minor is still recovering in the Sant Joan de Déu hospital and it was her mother who wanted to publicize the brutal assault of her daughter in EL PERIÓDICO. This case has become the main priority for the specialized unit of the Mossos, made up mainly of women.

As published yesterday by La Vanguardia, the Mossos They rule out that the person who raped the minor was the young man who accompanied her to the exit from the Épic nightclub. In fact, this newspaper points out, the young man would be collaborating with the family of the minor to help stop the aggressor or aggressors, since one of the hypotheses is that it was a group rape. For its part, the town council of the town has installed security cameras in the polygon where this place is located

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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