We found this story via Care2.Com about a Washington , DC sexual assault survivor who was denied use of a rape kit by both the hospital and police.
For years women who have been sexually assaulted have had to deal with people who believe that is they didn’t say no, then a rape did not really happen. Usually, due to drinking, drugs, or other influences a woman who finds herself unable to say no is unable to consent as well, something society is now much more likely to consider rape.
But in Washington D.C, the same argument — that a woman couldn’t consent so the sex was an assault, is being used to block one means for documenting and prosecuting her attacker.
Read the entire story here
