Rape-Reporting Procedure Missing After Hurricane

[realFedUp]

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http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2448

Rape-Reporting Procedure Missing After Hurricane
Run Date: 09/13/05

By Nancy Cook Lauer
WeNews correspondent

The rape report of New Orleans' singer Charmaine Neville is one of the few coming out of the beleaguered Hurricane Katrina area. Advocates for sex-assault victims say they are collecting plenty of stories, but no reporting process is in place.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WOMENSENEWS)--A heart-wrenching video of New Orleans singer/songwriter Charmaine Neville aired by WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, La., shows one of the few rape reports coming out of the beleaguered area hit by Hurricane Katrina.

A distraught and disheveled Neville is caught on the video, which aired Sept. 2, telling her story to Archbishop Alfred Hughes of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Neville, daughter of Charles Neville of the famous Neville Brothers rock and soul band, describes how she and others from New Orleans' Ninth Ward sought shelter on the roof of a school after the waters started rising.

"I found some police officers. I told them that a lot of us women had been raped down there by guys who had come (into) . . . the neighborhood where we were, that were helping us to save people. But other men, and they came and they started raping women and . . . and they started killing them," Neville recounts. "And I don't know who these people were. I'm not going to tell you I know who they were because I don't. But what I want people to understand is that if we had not been left down there like the animals that they were treating us like, all of those things wouldn't have happened."

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[Kailassa]

1. Horrendous, unimaginable,

and I know from stuff I've been through how much harder it is to get over something in an environment where no-one is listening and your abuser is getting off scot free.

[realFedUp]

2. the MSM seems slow in reporting this side of the SuperDisaster

I'm sure some are thinking...what are a few
rapes in comparison with losing your home, job, city,
loved ones, separation from parents, children,
friends, community, shuttled off like FedEx packages
to destinations and futures unknown.

[realFedUp]

3. kicking for disinterest....nt