As sexual assault month and National Denim Day, it seems appropriate that today's post focus on sexual violence. Today I received notice of a web course on sexual violence aimed at judges and the court system called Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse which I have started and found full of really good information. (It is a free course available to anyone and if you don't have the time to go through it all, you can easily skip to the parts most interesting to you.)
In that web course there was a question that really got me thinking that I wanted to share:
When you are listening to a victim of intimate partner sexual abuse give her account on the stand, what questions do you ask yourself? Do you think to yourself, Why doesn't she just say 'no'? or Why doesn't she leave? Would you think to ask, Why doesn't he leave her alone?
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