Characteristic of the rape victim is profile in a town from São Paulo State

Abstract

The proposal about this study was an investigation of rape victims in small town of São Paulo State. A research about rape in Piraju’s Legal Medicine Institute was developed, with 62 women submitted to sexologic evaluation, from July 1994 to July1997 (three years). The age varied from 4 to 54 years old (average 13,8) and most of them (87,1%) was under 18 years old. It was observed that 95,1% women were single. The predominant color was white (87,1%) and, the most usual victim was the student (59,7%). The interval between the “complaint”and the examination varied, from examinations performed at the same day to months later, however 74,3% was performed less than 15 days after the possible rape. About all women submitted to sexologic evaluation, 37,1% have intact hymen, 45,2% have non recent hymenal rupture and 12,9% have recent hymenal rupture. The intercourse was comproved in 25,8% using in the examination three certainty signs (recent hymenal rupture, sperm-cell from the vagina and pregnancy). Among these cases of positive intercourse, the pregnancy was diagnosed in 37,5% (9,6% of all women submitted to sexologic evaluation). The research of sperm-cell from the vagina was positive in 9,7%. In all women submitted to examination, 64,5% of people without any relationship was accused, and victims’relatives was 35,5%. Among the relatives of all the victims the accused was the father 41,0%. It was observed that 58,1% of all women submitted to examination was from 11 to 17 years old, were student and teenager.