Woman’s Seven-Year Ordeal Of Rape And Abuse In Council Care
A woman with the mental age of eight and living in council care was raped or sexually assaulted as many as 12 times yet her assailants were never brought to justice, a damning report concludes today.
It lambasts the Crown Office, police, social work and health professionals for failing to protect the woman and prosecute the three men, who carried out the attacks between 1999 and 2006, when the woman was 58-65.
The Mental Welfare Commission, which today publishes the report, Justice Denied, said despite several reports to police and referrals to procurators-fiscal, the men were never taken to court.
It adds that her case is far from unique, saying: “The circumstances which allowed Miss A to be sexually assaulted, repeatedly, without those who assaulted her being brought to justice, are ones which are common throughout Scotland.”
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