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Did you Know
Girls are at serious risk of being sexually victimized? Some people think it only happens to little kids. Well it doesn’t. It may happen to your friends, kids you know at school, and you. If it happens to you, talk about it with an adult you trust.
What is IT?
Did you know that adults who abduct and molest kids mainly do it for two reasons? You know what they are? They are control and sex. And you may have already figured out some people you know, adults and even guys your own age, could be interested in you for the same thing.
Here are some FACTS
• 67% of all victims of reported sexual assaults were younger than 18 (1)
• Females were more than 6 times as likely as males to be the victims of reported sexual assaults(2)
• Adult offenders assaulted 63% of juvenile victims(3)
• The average victim of abduction and murder is an approximately 11-year-old girl, who is described as a ”low risk,” ”normal” kid from a middle-class neighborhood with a good family relationship who has initial contact with an abductor within a quarter mile of her home(4)
So How Can You Stay Safer? KNOW THE RULES
There are rules to live by. Rules that remind you, like a little voice inside you that says HEY, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to go there? These are your rules for life.
So What are THE RULES?
1. DON’T GO OUT ALONE
2. ALWAYS TELL AN ADULT WHERE YOU’RE GOING
3. IT’S YOUR BODY
4. SAY NO IF YOU FEEL THREATENED, AND TELL A TRUSTED ADULT
We know, these rules are pretty BASIC, pretty common sense. Yeah, yeah, you’ve heard them a million times, but have you ever really LISTENED to them? Have you ever really thought about what they mean? We are going to talk about three girls. You may be thinking, ”I know this stuff, but it can’t happen to me.” Well it can happen to you and girls like you, just like it happened to these three girls. Here are their stories.
