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Hi everyone,
I was raped last year whilst working in Paris.
As awful as this was I found the experience of reporting it to the police just as traumatic.
I was subjected to a good cop/bad cop routine and they asked me all kinds of irrelevant questions like "were you a virgin before?" "Are you a Lesbian?", "Oh you're from Ireland, is that a Catholic country?"
I'm now working as a freelance journalist and want to write an article which shines a light on this issue.
I've received an FOI request back from the IPCC with figues on the number of complaints regarding the handling or rape/sexual abuse cases.
But I need your help too.
I want to know if anyone has had a similar experience in the UK when reporting rape/sexual abuse and if so I'd love to use your thoughts in my article.
Of course, it goes without saying that any comments would be anonymous.
Thank you!
Kathy
I was raped last year whilst working in Paris.
As awful as this was I found the experience of reporting it to the police just as traumatic.
I was subjected to a good cop/bad cop routine and they asked me all kinds of irrelevant questions like "were you a virgin before?" "Are you a Lesbian?", "Oh you're from Ireland, is that a Catholic country?"
I'm now working as a freelance journalist and want to write an article which shines a light on this issue.
I've received an FOI request back from the IPCC with figues on the number of complaints regarding the handling or rape/sexual abuse cases.
But I need your help too.
I want to know if anyone has had a similar experience in the UK when reporting rape/sexual abuse and if so I'd love to use your thoughts in my article.
Of course, it goes without saying that any comments would be anonymous.
Thank you!
Kathy
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