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Beyond Rape

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a five part series titled Beyond Rape about one rape survivor's experience with the criminal justice system.  Here is a portion of the second piece in the series:Six days after I identified David Francis, the county sheriff's server handed me a subpoena. I had to testify at a parole revocation hearing on July 24 at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center. Why? I wondered. He's already locked up. I had heard that rape victims felt raped a second time by the criminal justice system, but I thought that had ended in the 1970s with training programs for law enforcement and medical professionals. Now I was seeing it. I was a cog in the system, not a person with feelings. I had to go to the jail, sit across a table from the guy who raped me, and testify against him so they could revoke his parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).