Seven in 10 victims of sex offences knew their attacker, while two out of three victims of assault, threats to murder and harassment also knew the offender
The vast majority of victims in cases of sexual assault offences and assaults were known to the suspected offender, according to figures published by the Central Statistics Office .
The results also showed that nearly two-thirds of sexual offences reported by victims in 2023 were within a year of occurrence, but one out of every five offences reported referred to incidents that occurred more than 10 years earlier. In 2023, about three in 10 victims of historic sexual offences were males under 18 years of age when the crime incident occurred, compared with about a half for female victims.
But for incidents reported after a year, 31 per cent of victims were male and 69 per cent were female. Just over six in 10 murder or manslaughter offences reported in 2022 involved both a male suspected offender and male victim, while about a fifth involved a male suspected offender and female victim.
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