Pak Sahafat – The shocking results of the research conducted in England show that over the past three years, 6,500 cases of sexual harassment have been registered in the hospitals of this country.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, the statistical data of the Women’s Rights Network shows that every week dozens of cases of rape and sexual harassment occur in medical centers and hospitals in England, and this situation reveals the “terrible scale of sexual abuse in the treatment sector” in this country.
From gang rapes to child sexual abuse, according to Heather Binning, the founder of this English institute, the published statistics are a small part of an iceberg. He added: Hospitals are places where everyone – patients, staff and visitors – should feel completely safe, but dozens of violent rapes and sexual assaults occur every week. The founder of this English institute added: Statistics show that hospitals are not safe places and are a market for sex offenders. This situation is absolutely terrible.
According to data from the Women’s Rights Network, at least 2,088 rapes and 4,451 sexual assaults were recorded between January 2019 and October 2022. The published statistics do not detail whether these violations were committed in public hospitals or private centers. However, the research shows that out of every seven cases, a terrible rape occurred in public hospitals and only 4.1% of the crimes resulted in charges or summoning of the suspect.
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Ms. Binning stating that hospitals and the police force have failed to protect vulnerable people, said: The police are not doing enough in recording crimes and prosecuting them. We did this research out of concern for the safety of women and children, but we were horrified by what we discovered.
The published report mentions rape against a girl under the age of 13 and multiple sexual harassment of a woman. Three girls and one young boy also reported that they were raped in Cambridgeshire health centers and six girls were sexually abused in Lancashire hospitals.
But one of the shocking cases is the death of a 75-year-old woman due to injuries caused by sexual assault. It is said that Mrs. Valerie Neill’s condition was improving in Victoria Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Her family suspected she had died of another heart attack, but the coroner’s office said she bled to death after suffering horrific internal injuries from “forced sexual assault.”
Joe Phoenix, professor of criminology at the University of Reading, who wrote the report, said: Statistics show that British health centers have failed to fulfill their duties to protect patients and staff. But the fact that 95.9% of all crimes are not followed up or (officially) recorded as a crime is truly terrifying.