Calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked Last Weekend While More Kavanaugh News Broke

Calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked Last Weekend While More Kavanaugh News Broke
Friday to Sunday saw 57 percent more calls.
Jackie Flynn Mogensen
September 24, 2018 7:09 PM


The National Sexual Assault Hotline saw a surge in calls—a 57 percent increase from an average weekend—from Friday September 21 through Sunday September 23.

A higher volume of calls have been rolling in ever since Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault—an allegation that also prompted the #WhyIDidn’tReport hashtag to go viral on Twitter last week. Then on Sunday, the New Yorker revealed a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, is accusing Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her while in college.

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the organization which runs the National Sexual Assault Hotline, these surges are common when sexual assault is in the news. This time, the increase in calls was even higher than when #MeToo first hit. After the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, the center saw a 46 percent increase in calls, RAINN press secretary Sara Mcgovern told Mother Jones in an email.

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