The horrifying sexual assault that reportedly occurred over the past three years at UK hospitals has been made public in a new report.
New statistics from the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) show that more than 6,000 sexual assaults, including gang ra.pes and assaults on children, were reported.
According to the Mirror UK, the statistics were obtained by sending freedom of information requests to police forces in England and Wales.
Between January 2019 and October 2022, at least 2,088 rapes and 4,451 sexual assaults were reported at a rate of 33 each week; shockingly, one in seven of these incidents occurred in hospital wards.
And just 4.1 per cent of the crimes resulted in the suspect facing a charge or summons.
Founder of WRN Heather Binning said the figures were ‘just the tip of the iceberg’ and that it shows hospitals are ‘just not safe spaces’
She said: ‘They are almost a market for sexual offenders. It’s absolutely terrifying.’
She said: ‘The police are not doing enough in terms of recording the crimes properly and pursuing them – these are places with CCTV and restricted access. Why is the charge rate so low?’
Ms Binning said: ‘These statistics are jaw-dropping. We began this investigation because of concerns about the safety of women and children on NHS wards, but we are horrified at what we have uncovered.