This article from South Africa shows you how many court rooms effectively puts the rape victim on trial. This degrading treatment of victims of sexual violence really is a crime in itself!
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Outside the High Court we have rent-a-mob labelling the complainant a bitch, a liar and a whore who deserves to be stoned and burnt.
And should some women still not have absorbed the message from Zuma's court supporters to shut up and take it, the law was there to underline it in bold.
Much of this degradation was achieved through the humiliating cross-examination of her sexual history.
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