Unfortunately, Based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice Statistics, an estimated 232,960 women aged 12 and older were victims of rape or sexual assault in 2019 in the U.S. Additionally, an estimated 748,700 women were victims of aggravated assault in the same year.
And although attacks on the street may have become more prevalent over the last couple of years in large cities, so has citizen heroes stepping in to end them. Here’s video of one such instance in Phoenix, Arizona, where a man calmly walks up and saves a young woman’s life. Read the full story here ▶
