Assessment Of Rape Victims The Case Of Secondary Preparatory TVET Adwa College Of Teachers And Educational Leadership Education And Axum University Central Zone Of Tigray Ethiopia

Introduction Rape is sexual act with an expression of violence anger or power. It is the act of penile penetration achieved by force or the threat of force. Rape is an act of violence and humiliation in which the victim experiences over whelming fear sense of powerlessness helplessness feels frightened or threatened Groth 1979 Sarrel 1980 Sarrel and Masters 1981 Estrich 1987 Gordon and Riger 1989 Hilberman 1976. Our female sisters encountered with rape most of the time when they arrive to adolescence stage commonly in their high school and higher education level So this research work is helpful in assessing the condition of rape in high schools college TVET institutes and university found in central zone Tigray region Ethiopia Objective- Status of rape in students of high schools colleges and university in order to recommend its preventive measures. Methodology Institutions based cross sectional study design was employed. This research work has been carried out by dispatching self administered questionnaires randomly among 643 students of secondary preparatory TVET Adwa college of teachers and educational leadership education and Axum university students. Two departments sections has been taken from each institute. The collected data was analyzed quantitatively entering in to a computer using SPSS Version 16 using Chi-square Annova Sign test. Result Among the sexually active 96 females 3536.5 of them have enforced to be initially involved in sex by rape.. When we see the number of rape accident revealed per one female student 66.6 of the victims encountered once whereas 44 of the victims encountered more than one which extend up to six times per one female student.. The known perpetrators to the rape victim female students account 55.3 which include boyfriends 23 3 instructors teachers and 46 6. And class mate 7.7 1. The unknown perpetrators account 23 3. Majority of the rape incidents revealed in secondary 38.3 and preparatory 29.8 followed by university 19.1 then by TVET 6.4 then by elementary 4.3 and CTE 2.1. Majority of the rape incidents revealed when the victims made trip to and from school 46.8 followed by in residence area of the victim or perpetrator 40.4. Lastly when the victim was on the way to perform duty of her parents 12.8. Among the 47 female students revealed with rape danger 80.9 38 60.6 them faced with psychological problem of anxiety 29 of them faced with unwanted pregnancy then 5.2 of them faced with HIVAIDS and 5.2 of them faced with physical harm like crack in the sexual part including the womb. Among the 47 victims of rape 27.7 13 of them have claimed that they have faced with rape incident in their present institution. This is mainly university 46.2 next secondary school and TVET 23 each lastly CTE 7.6 1. Among the university perpetrators 66.7 6 of them are instructors whereas 16.7 1 unknown while 16.7 1 is class mate. Among the secondary perpetrators 66.7 2 are teachers while 33.3 1 is unknown to the victim. In case of CTE Perpetrators 100 2 of them are boyfriend of the victim. Likewise in case of the TVET perpetrators 50 1 is boyfriend whereas 50 1 is unknown. Here the major perpetrators in the present institutions are instructors teachers 46 which comprise 66.7 4 are university instructors and 33.3 2 are secondary teachers. Conclusion and Recommendation- This research has investigated rape incident is series problem of our female student. It is affecting their life and education process. Almost half 49 of the sexually active female students revealed rape accident. Even 44 of the rape victims encountered more than one rape incident which extend up to six time per one victim. The very alarming condition is 36.5 of the sexually active students at initial enforced to be involved to sex by rape. Therefore in order to make free our female students from this series danger the MOE as well as the regional bureau of education should include in primary and secondary curriculum focusing on conditions which give ground for rape incident and its prevention . Ant-rape policy should be produced and all responsible body should make overall efforts