"I was being violated again and again": The women left in torment while the rapists get away with it as Covid leaves loopholes in a system struggling to cope
"I felt like I was being violated again and again and again." Sitting in court as her attacker is about to be jailed, a survivor of attempted rape tells of the pain and suffering she experienced to get to this moment. "It felt like it had happened to me five times, not once. "It was almost as much trauma as what happened." She is talking about the stress of attempting to navigate through the criminal justice system during the Covid pandemic. After two collapsed trials, and over 18 months on from the attack, the woman can now finally start to move on. But the route to justice very nearly broke her. The victim, whose identity is concealed for legal reasons, had been visiting a friend at an asylum seeker refuge in Rochdale when
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