A mechanism that 'a woman who has been sexually assaulted to collect evidence with her own hand' appears to reduce contact under a pandemic
The epidemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has had a lot of impact on people's lives, and various activities that were previously possible have become impossible due to movements to refrain from going out and forced urban blockades. I will. In the meantime, a mechanism has appeared that 'the victim of sexual assault collects evidence of sexual assault with his own hands while receiving instructions from the nurse by video call without contacting other people'. I will.
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Similarly, domestic sexual assault damage may also increase, but services such as DV and shelters for people who have been sexually assaulted have stopped in the United States due to the epidemic of COVID-19. I am. There, California officials allowed a way for victims of sexual assault to receive a video call from a nurse and collect evidence of what happened to them.
Lana Nassoura, deputy prosecutor of Monterey County , California, said using video calls to let the victims themselves collect evidence of sexual damage is a temporary measure during the COVID-19 epidemic. It says that it applies to healthy adults who are not injured.
Nassoura said, 'What we most don't want is to worry about victims being infected with the new coronavirus and not reporting the damages to law enforcement. I wanted to give them. ' As of April 19, 2020, two victims have already gathered evidence of sexual assault with their own hands.
Having victims collect evidence themselves can help protect not only the victim but also the nurse performing the test. This time, one of the victims who was allowed to gather evidence with their own hands had symptoms similar to COVID-19, but at the time of reporting the damage of sexual assault, the result of the PCR test was I didn't receive it. 'It was best to gather evidence of sexual assault as quickly as possible, so we couldn't postpone the test even though the victim might be infected with the new coronavirus,' Nassoura said. .
In the 'provisional protocol' at the time of writing the article, police officers first place an inspection kit in front of the victim's home, and police officers wait in a police car parked nearby. When the victim collects the inspection kit and returns home, a forensic nurse, a police officer, and a counselor will make a video call in Zoom with the victim. After the police officer conducts an interview with the victim, the police officer and the counselor hang up and the nurse instructs the victim one-on-one to use the test kit. When the victim collects the evidence, the test kit is placed in front of the house, and police officers collect the kit and take it to the forensic laboratory.
Regarding a new method of collecting evidence under the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyer Mark Reichel said that collecting evidence by the victim himself is skeptical about the rationality of the evidence. 'It's absolutely dangerous to replace the calm law enforcement officers who collect the most important evidence with the victims themselves,' Reichel said, making it easy for the victim to blame someone. Argues that Nassoura argued that it was not easy for victims to falsify evidence, given the entire process is in control and there is also monitoring of nurses via video calls.
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