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Evening Standard

Rape offence reported every hour in London as charities brand figures 'horrifying'

Evening Standard
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Nutrition label

69% Informative

More than 4,300 children reported being a victim of rape or sexual assault to the Met in 2023 .

That is equivalent to a report of sexual abuse about every two hours .

Rape Crisis centres Solace and Nia have called the findings "horrifying" Professor of gender abuse and policy at London South Bank University said the figures were "depressing" but that “I'm not surprised"..

VR Score

71

Informative language

71

Neutral language

4

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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