Posts Tagged ‘Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Borrell’
NZ Police says stopping rape is women’s responsibility![]()
I won’t even try to compete with Queen of Thorns ability to express (out)rage, so this is after several deep breaths. Is Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Borrell seriously intending to say that women are responsible when someone sexually assaults them? And that addressing rapists’ behaviour is not the way to prevent rape? To be fair to him, he does go on to say that
So apparently it’s not entirely the young victim’s fault, it’s also the responsibility of her friends and (yay) the rapist’s friends, oh and pretty much everyone except the rapist (whose behaviour is apparently unpreventable). I’ll leave the final words to Helen Sullivan, Wellington Sexual Abuse Help Foundation general manager, who says what the Police should have
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