Clash Daily By Wes Walker
We have a number for how many sexual assualts — including gang rape and child abuse — happened in UK hospitals over the last 3 years. You’ll want to sit down before you read the number.
You will ALSO want to keep in mind that the last three years included COVID-related shutdowns of many non-urgent medical services, meaning far fewer patients saw a doctor’s care than would otherwise have happened.
That means this number — as high as it is — might have spiked even higher if there were more patients in the hospital.
A group called the Women’s Rights Network has released a report describing how many sexual assaults have happened in the three-year period between January 2019 and October 2022, and a member of that network describes British hospitals as ‘almost a market for sexual offenders’.
At least 2,088 rapes and 4,451 sexual assaults were reported between January 2019 and October 2022 – a rate of 33 a week.
The data does not detail whether the offences were carried out at NHS or private facilities. But a shocking one in seven took place on hospital wards.
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