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5th October 2017
02:11pm BST
The report also showed that calls from adults to the DRCC have risen by 24 percent since 2015. Last year, there were 3,579 calls relating directly to adult rape.
Last year, there were 3,579 calls relating directly to adult rape.
In total, the helpline received 12,388 calls with 6,133 of those being first time contacts.
Reports of adult sexual abuse and child sexual abuse are about even with the centre receiving 40.92 percent of calls about adult rape and 41.17 percent about child sexual abuse.
Over three-quarters of those were made by women or girls.
The vast majority of assaults against children were also committed by people known to the victim with only 8.55 percent being strangers.
CEO Noeline Blackwell said that the figures show where gaps exist regarding consent and education around sexual assault in Ireland.
She said:
“A youth worker quoted in our report says that young people are really lost when it comes to consent. Our therapists see the same thing.
"As a society, we must be stronger in our intolerance of non-consensual behaviour. We must build a wide-ranging understanding that non-consensual sex is always rape.”
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