Sexual Assault Cases

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Justice, does it exist in America? Looking at sexual assault cases, some would say yes and others no. Most sexual assault cases never make it to a court because authorities tell the victims that they do not have enough evidence …… What this answer to the victims suggests is that they will be denied their Due Process because they do not have what authorities consider to be hard evidence. There are some cases that have evidence, but the victim was impaired, so they have no case, they could forget that they did give permission. For example, a woman came home from a night out and a man broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her. Even though when the police came in whilst this man was harassing her. Because she was impaired when this incident happened, they said she had no solid …show more content…
Sebert claims that Gottwald drugged and raped her back in 2014. The Judge recently in court sided with Gottwald and would not let Sebert get out of the six year contract she has with Gottwald and Sony.
Recently a very popular topic has been sexual assault on college campuses. The University of Michigan recently did a survey show that 20% of their students have been sexually assaulted. It has been shown that most people who are sexually assaulted in their lifetime it happens in college. Yet most sexual assaults that are reported to the school’s administration are dismissed. Even when there are multiple girls coming forward saying the same person sexually assaulted them. There is a student, who goes to Colombia, and on the first day of her freshman year she was raped. She did not go to administration until two other girls had told her that the same guy had also raped them. They then refused to let the other girls mention that he was a serial rapist. The school also would not let them write their own statement, someone else had to write it as the victim told them the

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