FACSAFoundation.org Shattering The Silence Tour Documentary Project February 2015 Volume 3 | Page 9

If you will look around your classroom, church, auditorium, or any public setting
and think of these statistics, as you take a mental snapshot of your classmates. One
in three girls are sexually assaulted before the age 18 and one of six boys; and that
is only the ones who have reported it. 90% of sexually assaulted children never
report it. They don’t report being raped by an abuser, a family member, their
partner, or a stranger because of shame, feeling dirty, wondering what they did to
deserve it, they don’t want to break up the family, feel like no one will believe
them, or does not want to get the abuser in trouble. This also allows the perpetrator
to hurt someone else because they don’t stop, seldom change w/o counseling, and
you can’t fix them.
Regardless of age, Teen and adult abusive partners will demonstrate some of the
following classic abusive behaviors:
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