Sometimes I go on my local paper's website and count the court cases about offences against women and girls. They are all the usual horror, child sex abuse, rape, stalking, domestic violence, sexual assault, none of them "serious" enough to make the national news and few of them in fact will be covered by the local TV news.I estimate there are about 5 a week. This will be replicated across the country and this is only the ones that get to court I am a survivor of a serious sexual assault by a stranger who attacked me when I was walking home from work and it affected me profoundly. I used to think I would never recover, the fear, the flashbacks, my terror of the dark and a natural distrust of storage men now amplified into complete paranoia. The initial attack merited a paragraph in the local press and the court case did not feature at all. I was glad that it did not get a lot of coverage but I suspect the reason was that it was too "commonplace" too "ordinary" an almost daily event which sadly it is.