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From: saquigley@watdaisy.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Rape in  Ontario
Message-ID: <340@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 15:09:03 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.340
Posted: Wed Nov 30 15:09:03 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Dec-83 02:01:46 EST
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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For the last three days I have been hearing about a very disturbing
case: a woman claimed that she had been raped by two men, but later
refused to testify against them in court because she feared for her
life.
Consequently, she has been put in jail for seven days, and the accused
rapists left free.

Does anybody know anymore about this than me?
Was it the women who originally laid the charges against the men or
were they laid for her by someone else (doctor, police)?
Which guarantees to her security were offered to her at the times
when the charges were being laid and afterwards, when she decided
not to testify?

I find this event profoundly disturbing, because I think it might set
a precedent, and make women even more reluctant to lay charges for
rape.  Not to mention the fact that not only has the poor women been
raped by two men, but to punish her for being scared, she gets sent to
jail and her attackers left free.