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01-30-2007 10:20 AM |
Rape Victim Thrown in Jail, Denied Emergency Birth Control
Ah, how I love the crap that goes on in my town:
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A 21-year-old woman told police Saturday that a man grabbed her off Howard Avenue and raped her behind a building during the Gasparilla festivities.
But officers investigating the case arrested her after learning she had an outstanding warrant from her teenage years for failure to pay restitution.
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The woman did not have the opportunity to call the hot line, her mother and attorney said. As a jail inmate, she was allowed only to make collect calls. "She did not have any crisis intervention. Zero. None," her mother said.
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Adding to the mother's ire is her claim that a jail nurse prevented her daughter from taking a second dose of emergency contraception prescribed by a nurse at a clinic as part of a rape examination. The jail nurse, said the mother and the victim's attorney, denied the medication for religious reasons.
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