9 Oct 2020

A third of sexual assaults on university students going unreported

From Morning Report, 7:42 am on 9 October 2020

A third of sexual assaults on New Zealand university students go unreported, according to new research published in The New Zealand Medical Journal.

In a survey of 1500 students, 28 percent reported at least one form of sexual assault, including 15 percent who reported rape.

In nearly a third of those cases, survivors didn't tell anyone about their experience.

Associate Professor Melanie Beres, from the University of Otago sociology department, speaks to Corin Dann.

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