Two studies from the US Department of Justice shows that on average, there are 321,500 victims of rape and sexual assault in the United States every year. Between 1992 and 2000, 91% victims of rape and sexual assault were female.
Two cases of alleged sexual assault in the 1990s and 2010s caught the attention of the whole nation, Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas in 1991, and Christine Blasey Ford vs. Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Both cases involved Supreme Court nominees.
The hearings in both affairs were nationally televised and according to Forbes magazine, two million households followed the Anita Hill testimony in 1991 and roughly 20.4 million people tuned in for the hearing of Brett Kavanaugh according to Reuters.
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