May 28th 2024.
It has been revealed that only 15% of reported sexual assaults in New South Wales lead to charges being filed, with even less resulting in a guilty verdict. According to data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, there were 5869 sexual assaults reported to the police in 2018. Out of those, only 969 defendants were charged and 872 of them went to court.
To put it into perspective, this means that only 41% of defendants - or a mere 7% of the total number of reported assaults - were found guilty of at least one offence. The numbers from BOCSAR also showed that only 8% of contemporary child sexual assault incidents, 7% of historic sexual assault incidents, and 6% of adult sexual assault incidents resulted in a guilty verdict.
Jackie Fitzgerald, the executive director of NSW BOCSAR, expressed concern over the high attrition rate during the police investigation phase. She noted that while the number of reported sexual assaults has nearly doubled in the last decade, the number of convictions remains low. In 2022, there were 9138 reported incidents of sexual assault, yet only 1016 defendants were found guilty in NSW courts.
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