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Originally Posted by rubecube
No it's not. If you do any kind of research about or work with sexual assault victims, you learn pretty quickly that going to the police can often be an additional level of trauma and humiliation added on to the original assault. I can see a number of reasons why reporting it to the media would be a preferable course of action, specifically if the victims think their cases have very unlikely chance of being successfully prosecuted.
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I've acknowledged that very point though. It would certainly condition the legal significance of the response, but I do not see how the fact of trauma automatically precludes or disallows asking the question (in an independent, anonymized investigation for example).
And again, I still think the point of an investigation/trial would be to establish a victim exists, and not to work backwards to determine the story of someone accepted at the outset to be a victim. That is certainly a fundamental problem and potential injustice within our legal system's handling of abuse matters, but I'm at a loss as to how address it and balance other fundamental rights (to face one's accuser, presumed innocent, burden of proof in criminal matters, etc.).