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1 out of every 5 women were sexually abused as children. 50% of those child sexual abuse victims were under the age of 12.

  The federal data proves that the system is failing our country, the nation's women and children and our communities. Every year an additional 98 out of 100 sex offenders are released back into our neighborhoods. Since 1994 when VAWA was enacted, forcible rape rates have tripled. According to the FBI, only 30% of sexual assaults are reported to police, and 98% of perps are never prosecuted or convicted. 

  Annually, and nationwide 98% of gender based violence offenders are never prosecuted or convicted, and 75% of gender based violence victims are women. The United States reports 1.1 million victims of domestic violence per year, and 443,000 sexual violence cases annually. For every 1,000 sexual assaults only 25 lead to conviction. 

  With the overturning of Roe vs. Wade where does this abortion ban leave forcibly impregnated rape victims? Has the trauma not been profound enough but then to also force a victim of rape to carry a rapist's child to full term and give birth to it, subjecting the victim to an additional count of attempted murder/potential death during the birth process, not to mention the irreversible damage caused to our reproductive systems and severe disfigurement caused by 10 months of unwanted pregnancy? What kind of mental health treatment exists to adequately address being forced to endure this kind of emotional trauma, the trauma that guarantees our prolonged suffering for at least 10 seemingly endless months? And what about child support? Does the state meet us at the delivery room with a court order for 18 years of child support bills for an injury caused by sexual violence crime we somehow found ourselves victim to?

  In eliminating gender based violence, the problem is not lobbying for new laws, but enforcing the laws we do have. The problem lies primarily within the justice system, starting on local and state levels. When local and state justice systems fail us, where is the federal guarantee to our lives, liberty and freedoms?

  One of the biggest problems women face are judicial and state immunity clauses, corrupt court systems, the unequal application of law, and the inability of victims to achieve justice within the CORRUPTED system. Corruption is legally defined as the breach of public trust for public or private gain. Where the system fails women as victims of gender based violence and JUDICIAL discrimination is the system that prohibits us from seeking legal action against those guaranteed immunity.

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