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Tue 09 Sep 2008Half of students say rape victims who flirt culpable
CLOSE TO half of Northern Ireland students believe that women rape victims who had acted flirtatiously or failed to say "no" clearly were totally or partially responsible for being assaulted, according to a new survey.
The poll of 715 students from the University of Ulster's four campuses in the North found that 44 per cent of students believed that a woman was totally or partially responsible if she was raped or sexually assaulted while drunk.
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