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* Date rape often occurs in women ages 15-25, usually vulnerable looking.
* Some rapists use weapons while others use drugs, alcohol, physical force, intimidation or threats.
* More than 80 percent of teenage victims are raped by an acquaintance or someone they know.
* 52 percent of women students have experienced some type of sexual victimization.
* One of out three women will be raped in her lifetime.
* Up to 90 percent of rapes are never reported.
* Nationwide, approximately one million teens are sexually assaulted every year.
* Two-thirds of the teen victims only confide in a peer, not an adult.
* 75 percent of teenage victims never tell their parents.
* Teens don't confide in their parents because of fear.
* One in eight college women have been raped.
* One in twelve college men have admitted to sexually abusing women.
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