{"id":902,"date":"2017-10-26T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2018-02-20T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:22:21","slug":"discouraging-and-humiliating-victim-of-sexual-assault-wants-to-improve-criminal-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Discouraging and humiliating&#8217;: Victim of sexual assault wants to improve criminal justice system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/victim-sexual-assault-recommendations-nwt-1.4373416\">CBC North<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An N.W.T. woman who was a victim of sexual assault says she felt &#8220;lost&#8221; in the criminal justice system, and wrote eight recommendations last month to try and improve the treatment of victims in what she calls a &#8220;very inadequate&#8221; system.<\/p>\n<p>The Status of Women Council of the NWT approached the woman, who cannot be named due to a publication ban, this year. It&#8217;s meeting with the Federal Ombudsman for Victims and Crime \u2014 an independent office that provides resources to victims, and wanted to hear from her.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, not her real name, was a victim of sexual assault and domestic violence and says &#8220;the entire process was extremely isolating.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on CBC North An N.W.T. woman who was a victim of sexual assault says she felt &#8220;lost&#8221; in the criminal justice system, and wrote&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}