Rape attacks increase - Rape crisis centres play a vital role

RAPE ranks among the most heinous of crimes, and it is therefore extremely worrying that sexual attacks

Another disturbing feature of the growing volume of rape in Irish society is the revelation that over a third of the 10,000 reports received by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre were made by adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years old, while over 10% of complaints were from girls under 15 years of age.

Equally distressing is that less than one out of three offences are reported to the gardaí. This is regrettable but understandable.