WOMAN TO WOMAN

Less than 5% of sexual assaults are reported!

Let that sink in for a moment.

We all know the primary reason women are hesitant to report, they're convinced they won't be believed.

They have every reason to have that attitude in British Columbia.

A Kelowna, BC detachment Mountie was recorded asking a rape survivor if she liked the sex.

Here is that interview.

cheknews.ca

A Victoria woman is looking to give sexual assault survivors across the province a new option for reporting by developing a self-collection evidence kit.

“Ideally, we would like survivors of sexual assault to report to the police and take a sexual assault kit at the hospital with a qualified person, as that is the best evidence,” said Inspector Terry Gillespie, Terrace RCMP.

"In 2019 only five per cent of women who experienced sexual assault reported it to police and nine per cent to victim services.

The data also shows sexual assault had the lowest rate of reporting of any crime in 2019, with only six per cent coming to police attention.

“From some of what I understand, some of the reasons why people don’t report is because they don’t feel like they will be believed. Also because maybe they are afraid of going to the hospital, having the collection of the rape kit completed,” Schmidt said.