Almost 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Have Been Sexually Assaulted

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Almost one in five U.S. women have been sexually assaulted, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a 2010 survey of 16,507 adults, 18.3 percent of women and 1.4 percent of men said they had been victims of rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives, the CDC said today in the first report of its kind.