It’s difficult to explain just how retraumatising it is to relive rape and abuse even to people who are trained in dealing with it. This article goes nowhere near to explaining the effects this will have.
One thing I’d like to expand on is how it will hit women hard who are still living with their rapist. Many such women are also financially abused and their benefits are the only money they may have access to, or have a right to.
And there are implications for children of rape who still see their fathers. How much information will need disclosing and to whom?
