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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't recommend for any girl - the stories of rape and other similar tragedies are all to real[/quote]

A girlfriend of my friend's came back early from her Peace Corp assignment in the 90s. It was apparently due to a sexual assault she suffered. That made an enormous negative impression on me on Peace Corp seeing the pain and trauma she and her family had to endure.[/quote]

Do you have any grasp of how high the percent of American girls and women who are sexually assaulted in their own neighborhoods, in their own homes???

SA happens to women EVERYWHERE. It’s no reason to refrain from travel/live abroad because the USA is very rapey too.[/quote]

But surely you understand the great disadvantage of something like this happening to a woman in a third world country, especially when you may not be familiar with the culture, the laws process (or lack thereof), or have ability to get away from.  It’s not like you can press charges, get a restraining order, and move in with your parents/friend, leave state, etc. when you are a young American woman working in Ghana [/quote]

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