According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), there were 24,043 rapes and nearly 500,000 other sexual offences reported in the year ending September 2014, making it the highest level of sexual assault ever recorded.
According to the figures, there was a 22 percent surge in sexual crime since 2013.
The Home Office claims the rise may be down to the ‘Jimmy Savile effect’ relating to a British DJ and television presenter who sexually abused and raped potentially hundreds of children in the 1970s and 80s.
The extent of Savile’s abuse was only revealed in 2012, and led to Operation Yewtree – an ongoing police investigation into historic child sex abuse .... http://rt.com/uk
