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Student Post - Dominican Republic Rape Case has Similar Issues as in the United States

By Corey Rayburnyung

There are many issues and difficulties for rape victims in the United States that extend far beyond the trauma from the actual rape incident. Legal scholars continue to write about ways to reform rape law in America. Some of these difficulties stem from issues concerning the reporting of the rape, while others derive from the "rape kit" which must be administered to all rape victims once the rape is reported. Yet even more of these problems come from issues at trial-including the rape law itself and the treatment of women on the stand. Rape law needs to be reformed and a recent case in the Dominican Republic is reminiscent of so many of these same issues we face in the United States. A pastor, Miguelina Cuevas, found the 12 year old victim in the house where she lived with her mother after she had been missing for several days...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).