i can't really figure out how to write about this.
a woman was raped and, when she reported it, was thrown in handcuffs and arrested. the four year old warrant she was arrested for turned out to be a paperwork error and a juvenile offence, and yet considered so much more important than her rape that she was thrown in jail for the next two days.
despite being prescribed it at hospital, she was denied the emergency contraception pill because the medical supervisor at the jail said that doing so was against her religion.
i'm sorry, but what the FUCK?
from the article:
"They were more interested in prosecuting her for something that's a paperwork snafu from four years ago, that was juvenile. They were more interested in working on that than finding an experienced rapist," stated the victim's mother.
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"The medical supervisor would not allow her to take the pill because she said it was against her, the supervisor's, religion. So, here we have a medical supervisor imposing her beliefs on a rape victim," claimed the victim's attorney Virlyn Moore. "As a human being, how someone could be so violated by this monster and then the system comes along and rapes her again psychologically and emotionally - it's outrageous and unconscionable."