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In a personal statement included with the complaint, obtained by AP, the woman said the detectives' comments and questions made her feel like she was "being violated again," including: "Do you like rough sex?" and "I'm just trying to find the crime here."
The eight-hour experience has left her with post-traumatic stress and anxiety disorder, the woman, whose identity has not been revealed, said.
"After the entire day of being victimized by your police department, I was left feeling paranoid and scared as if I was the criminal," she wrote, according to AP.
According to the complaint, the woman told campus police she was raped in her dorm room and had an appointment at a local medical center for a forensic exam the same day. However, instead of taking the woman to the appointment, the campus police brought her to their department. She was held there for nearly eight hours and denied food, water, and access to the bathroom between interrogations, her complaint to federal education officials about the October 2014 incident says.
Comment: It is sadly all too common for rape victims to be treated so horrendously by law enforcement. If the authorities would be as zealous against the accused perpetrator as they are against the actual victim, there might actually be a real deterrent against rapes. As it stands, rapists are running free, protected by authorities who doubt the stories of rape victims and actually blame the victim for what happened instead of protecting them after a traumatic event. The police who do not do their jobs should be rightfully removed from dealing with rape victims. It is clear that most of Western society has a very big problem dealing with rapists and the victims who find no justice in the aftermath of their traumatic experiences: