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struggle4progress

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 08:59 PM Sep 2012

Sweden's rape rate under the spotlight

14 September 2012 Last updated at 19:37 ET
By Ruth Alexander BBC News

... Official figures from the United Nations show that there were 17 kidnaps per 100,000 people in Australia in 2010 and 12.7 in Canada.

That compares with only 0.6 in Colombia and 1.1 in Mexico.

So why haven't we heard any of these horror stories? Are people being grabbed off the street in Sydney and Toronto, while the world turns a blind eye?

No, the high numbers of kidnapping cases in these two countries are explained by the fact that parental disputes over child custody are included in the figures ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19592372

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Sweden's rape rate under the spotlight (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2012 OP
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