Everyday Victim Blaming

challenging institutional disbelief around domestic & sexual violence and abuse

compulsory testifying

A rape victim is jailed in order to force her to testify.

A prosecutor in the state of Texas took the extreme measure of incarcerating a victim of rape in order to force her to testify in the trial of her rapist. The victim spent one month in prison due to a Texas law referred to as an “attachment order” which allows the district attorney to force […]

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