The damning report - which used matters reported to ACT Policing in 2021 as a case study - has revealed a need for a huge overhaul in how police handle sexual assault cases.
Only one in seven people accused of raping a child will likely even know they were named as a suspect, much less be investigated, charged, prosecuted or convicted, a new Australian study has found. The number of cases in which police will approach a suspect only rises from 15 to 17 per cent in cases where the victim is over 16.
"But to paraphrase a young woman I spoke to about 15 when she engaged with police and her matter was dropped: 'if their law's not going to protect me and help me, who will? What am I supposed to do?'" There were a series of consistent failures in police efforts to undertake "reasonable and appropriate" action, like talking to suspects, gathering evidence such as CCTV footage and sending victim survivors for forensic medical...
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