However, the majority of respondents said victims had received support online, with 93% saying they had seen their friends post supportive content last year.
The Facebook pictures, which reveal no obvious scarring and only slight skin colouration on the side of her head, inspired more than 800 of her Facebook friends to post supportive messages in just two hours.
Sources pointed out that the MEP Daniel Hannan and the backbencher Douglas Carswell had posted supportive blogs.
Mr. Yang's arrest last Tuesday drew sympathetic coverage in the news media, and more than 10,000 people posted supportive messages, although many were promptly deleted.
One of Chan's high profile supporters is Dougie Mandagi, lead singer of the Temper Trap, who has been posting supportive messages on the band's Facebook page and website this week.
But members say the groups are becoming increasingly popular in the USA and Europe, too, with most run on Wordpress blogs or websites posting supportive teachings of the Juche ideology.
The survey of more than 1,500 teenagers also found 93 per cent of respondents have seen their friends posting supportive, kind of positive content about a certain group in the last year.
In France, people set up a support page on Facebook on Tuesday called "Je suis Bruxelles," which translates to "I am Brussels," where they posted supportive messages and images. .
For example: If so-and-so is posting encouraging comments on my assailants' Instagram timelines after sexual assault accusations have been made against them, then I look at their friends' accounts to see if they too are posting supportive messages or liking his posts.
I've been told my help is not helpful by folks, even as I try to distinguish myself to them from the other (bad) white/middle-class/slim/able-bodied/and-so-on people by being nonjudgmental or coming to their defense or posting supportive memes.
It's a big help to me to know this, I then think just how many thousands of us are having this problem, and most are managing well, and then, so can I!' (class 73) Facilitators posted supportive and empathic responses which implied that they had the same feelings and suffered in a similar way to the person who posted the problem.
