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What type of woman is reluctant to report sexual assault? (Original Post) Quixote1818 Nov 2014 OP
I read recently Beringia Nov 2014 #1
So terrible shenmue Nov 2014 #2
not to mention the hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits across the country, going back more niyad Nov 2014 #3
Then when it's reported the DA won't prosecute. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2014 #4

Beringia

(4,316 posts)
1. I read recently
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:24 PM
Nov 2014

that police don't even move forward when people claim rape. They sit in drawers gathering dust.



A sea and an ocean away, there was the even more appalling finding that New Orleans police didn't even bother to investigate hundreds of rape cases, or simply classified the reported sexual assaults as "noncriminal" and did no investigation. New Orleans or Britain was no anomaly. Months before the Cosby rape allegations surfaced, the Iowa Law Review, in March, found that rape is routinely underreported in dozens of cities. The rape claims were dismissed out of hand with little or no investigation. The result was there were no report, no statistical count, and no record of an attack.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/we-love-you-bill-cosby_b_6204616.html

niyad

(113,336 posts)
3. not to mention the hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits across the country, going back more
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:36 PM
Nov 2014

than a decade.

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
4. Then when it's reported the DA won't prosecute.
Tue Nov 25, 2014, 12:28 AM
Nov 2014

Because the victim "acted like a typical victim".

And the DA had the victim and the perp ON TAPE calling from the sheriff's office with the number disguised, getting him to talk about helping women get off with vibrators, etc. in disgusting detail. And they still refused to take it to a grand jury.

This was a female elected District Attorney, by the way, that said the victim "acted like a typical victim".

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