Comment Serious things treated seriously and w/ dignity (Score 5, Insightful) 234
There needs to absolutely be a mechanism in place for a woman to:
- safely be transported to a hospital in a fashion which maintains chain of evidence
- be examined by a sympathetic, but impartial medical professional using a rape kit to collect evidence
- make a formal statement, and if it includes an accusation, that to be duly sworn out in a reasonable fashion
There needs to be in place mechanisms for the hospital, police and other social structures to take the above seriously. If there aren't, that needs to change.