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Rape - What to do if you are raped and how to avoid

Submitted by Richard

If you are raped, do not touch anything, change your clothes or wash immediately afterwards. Call the police, someone you trust - a friend, family member or doctor and ask to be taken to a hospital. The hospital staff will provide medical assistance and a doctor will collect evidence that can be used in a court if the rapist is prosecuted.

If you are threatened with rape and there are people nearby, screaming, fighting back or running may improve your chances of escape. Other than that, it's impossible to make specific recommendations. A woman must assess her own situation - the circumstances and each offender's reactions will be different. See also MUGGING

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all ways look be hind you when you are walking

Comments by: elizebth from britan Jun 27, 2010

HI my mother always learnd me to look behind and if possible to walk in the middle of the road as i live in the country pluss not long ago i was nearly knift .from the back some thing told me to look behind me i crosst off quick and went in the corner shop he lookt so smart too coller and tie mmmmmm ??

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Comments by: Emma Sawyer from UK,England Mar 24, 2009

i was Raped when i was 12 the stuff that u said didn't work at all i was still raped & the Hospital didn't do that stuff only the Police did & i was taken to a safe house for 4 weeks & had to be take to school each day by a undercover cop