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Students warned to protect themselves from sex attacks

Leaving cert revellers have been warned to take steps to protect themselves from sex attacks.

The number of rapes doubles during the holiday months and the Rape Crisis Centre yesterday issued an urgent caution to the 53,000 former secondary schools students who will begin celebrations after picking up their results today.

The support network revealed that summer sex attacks on young people are almost twice what they were just three years ago and many attackers do not see rape as a crime.

The chief executive of the Rape Crisis Centre, Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop, said she believed the number of victims accompanied to the sexual assault treatment unit at the Rotunda Hospital last month was in the high 30s again this year.

"We have dealt with people who had passed out and someone had sex with them and the attacker didn't seem to get it that this was a crime," she said.

By Ann-Marie Walsh

More on this story-http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/students-warned-to-protect-themselves-from-sex-attacks-1453673.html

ŠIndependent.ie

 
 

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