Question: If someone you loved was victimized by sexual violence would you encourage them to report to the police?

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Answer #1:

she should report it before he does it to someone else.

Answer #2:

It's up to the victim. If they feel it's a crime and the person should be charged, prosecute that dirty old bastard. If it's someone that they will always have feelings for than counseling may be the way to go.

Answer #3:

The police would the least of the perpetrators concerns if it was one of my loved ones!

Answer #4:

I would encourage them to go to the police but I wouldn't pressure them. All you can do with a victim of sexual assault is comfort and support them.

Answer #5:

The questioner never mentioned gender. Why does the first respondent assume the perpetrator was male and the victim a woman. It's like the assumptions people made not long ago about African-Americans. The perpetrator was automatically assumed to be black and a male even when the criminal was a white female. Racism now sexism.
What is it they say? The more the world changes, the more it remains the same.

Answer #6:

Its a tough one, but it i would want to see justice served.

Answer #7:

I would urge them to do both. I would urge them to charge this person, as well as go to counsling.

Answer #8:

I absolutely would encourage them to do so. They still deserve justice and their attacker deserves to be put in jail. I'd be right there with them to help them deal with stupid remarks from small-minded idiots, too.

>Or would you suggest to just go for counselling and work through issues associated with this crime?

And let the criminal escape with no consequences, just to avoid hearing ugly remarks? No. Heck no. I think you'd need more therapy to deal with the fact that your abuser walked away scot free than you would to deal with cruel comments from strangers.

What if the attacker went on to hurt another person, because we let them get away with hurting us? That wouldn't be right at all.

Answer #9:

Reporting a violent sex crime helps both the next potential victim and possibly even the victim. These kinds of animals have been known to come back and kill their victim to avoid being prosecuted. Yes, the years of pretrial and trial involvement is terrible, but getting these monsters off the streets has to be weighed against the victim's continued victimization by the system. Stopping one serial rapist may be preventing a hundred more victims, some of whom may be killed.

If it were me, I would sacrifice to make this happen.

Answer #10:

This actually happened to my lady love on several occasions. I called the cops for her.

And I'm the only one she's ever told because I'm the only one she trusts in this whole world.

VIVA LA RAZA!

Answer #11:

I would ABSOLUTELY encourage them to report to the police. The whole "persecuting the accuser" is leftover BS from the days when *some people* thought males should be allowed to get away with anything they wanted...

Answer #12:

I would say yes, but remember that it is a situation where the abused may not feel comfortable about reporting. Sadly, this happens in many cases. This is very prevalent in male on male sexual violence. Men are often afraid to report being raped because they are afraid of what the police may think of a man being raped. Well, of course he is gay is the usual reaction. Even today in the 21 century if a man is raped he must be gay. Not necessarily so folks.

If it was a child that was violated there is no question in my mind. It is doubly hard for a child because he/she will not be able to understand what happened much less why.

Answer #13:

It depends on where she lived. In some places it's a lot worse than just worrying about what people will say, and agonizing over his verdict. A lot of rape victims wind up dead. (Yes, I'm talking about western women too. Rape victims have targets on their backs, and many of them become suicidal as well. Many times rapists who don't get sent to prison, come after the victim again. Most also attack other victims.) In many cases I'd not recommend it. But In most cases I would say to go to the police.

Sometimes you are better off just keeping a gun on you at all times. (where it's legal of course)

Answer #14:

I'd be supportive whichever way they decided to do things. I've been there a couple of times, once with someone who chose to report it and once with someone who chose not to. My opinion was never important.





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