Sentence examples for majority of rapes from inspiring English sources

A slight majority of rapes are never reported to the police, and others are never solved.

The terms date rape and acquaintance rape were originally introduced into public health parlance in the 1980s in an attempt to dispel the myth that the majority of rapes occurred as random attacks by strangers.

The discomforting truth is that the overwhelming majority of rapes are committed not by the archetypal odious stranger but by a person known or even intimate with the victim.

But the type of rape Friday night -- the apparently random choice of a victim and the multiple rapes in the grim solitude of a park bathroom -- contrasted with the majority of rapes reported, in which the victim and the attacker knew each other.

While such rapes do occur, the great majority of rapes are committed by a man or men known to the victim: dates, relatives, friends, bosses, husbands, neighbors, co-workers, and more.

The majority of rapes go unreported (95% of sexual assault victims do not report the crime to the proper authorities).

The vast majority of rape victims in India, more than 93 percent, knew their attacker, according to national crime statistics.

Unlike the majority of rape victims in India, she decided to report the crime, not only to the Park Street police, but also to the media.

This is still the case for the vast majority of rape victims; very few ever get a day in court and even fewer ever see their perpetrators convicted.

Shaheen and Nguyen hope the bill will serve as a model for lawmakers at the state level, where the vast majority of rape kits are collected, tested, and stored.

(Here's a disturbing side note: Rape proves the most difficult to measure crime using Google data, but not because of women's historical reluctance to report rapes. The problem is that the majority of rape-related Google searches are typed in by people looking for pornography).