Fewer than six percent of reported rapes in Britain end in conviction?

In Britain, a nation whose justice system has been used as a model around the globe, government officials and women’s activists agree that rape goes largely unpunished… Even some cases that do end in a guilty verdict stir outrage. Last year, a judge sentenced a 24-year-old man to two years in prison for having sex with a 10-year-old after concluding that the girl had “dressed provocatively.”… [P]ublic opinion polls show that a sizable proportion — a quarter to a third — of Britons say a rape victim is responsible for the attack if she is drunk or wearing “sexy” clothes… In the United States, 13 percent of rape reports end in a conviction. In many developing and Muslim countries, women’s activists say many victims don’t even report gang or stranger rapes because it is so difficult to win convictions.

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