Les victimes de viol sont plus traumatisées par les procédures judiciaires que par l'agression initiale. (Patreon)

Revue de presse de la semaine du 28 février 2022.

Rape victims ‘more traumatised by inadequate trials’ than original attack

L’article date du 25 février, mais il a été porté à mon attention aujourd’hui, alors le voilà. Je le recopie ici car il est payant.

"Rape trials are more traumatic than the original attack for some victims, watchdogs have found, as the Justice Secretary considers specialist courts to tackle the crisis over rape prosecutions.

In a joint investigation report, the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inspectorates said that the criminal justice system was “not fit for purpose”, with most rape victims saying they would not report their attack again after their experience.

They said that more than 40 per cent of victims were withdrawing from cases amid “inadequate” support from police and prosecutors, court delays on average of 706 days from offence to trial, and “overwhelmingly negative” experiences of court.

Victims described “repeated adjournments”, with one telling of 21 court delays, most at 24 hours’ notice, which meant a “trial I was told would take four days took 10 months. It was almost unendurable”.

One victim had to redo her video-recorded statement because the police or CPS lost it, another had “highly inappropriate, distressing and derogatory” evidence about them presented in court, and some had important evidence overlooked that contributed to suspects’ acquittals.

‘Some victims wish they had never reported rapes’

“In court, brutal cross-examinations were common. Participants’ personalities, sexual preferences, and motivations for reporting the incidents were said to have been interrogated in a derogatory, accusatory, and often discriminatory manner,” said the inspectors.

“Court was said to be more traumatic than the rape in some cases and led some to wish that they had never reported the incidents. Some participants were not protected from the suspect and their families outside court, causing fear and humiliation. One was asked to withdraw her statement at court, despite the suspect pleading guilty.

“Almost all participants reported decreased confidence in the police and CPS, and most would not report a rape to the police again. This was linked to the fact that suspects/perpetrators were thought to be treated more fairly than survivors.”

The inspectors said that alleged rapists were escaping justice because of the failings, citing one case where an alleged rapist was acquitted after the police and CPS failed to present evidence in court showing that he had allegedly raped two other people previously.

Of the 52,207 complaints of rape to police, just 1,109 resulted in a successful conviction."

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