Justice Gap: “It’s an uphill battle from day one”: What the police say

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Feminist campaigners have long argued that women are being let down when they report rape, but data obtained by Now Then shows that disabled women are getting an even worse deal.

Because despite being twice as likely to experience sexual assault, a Freedom of Information request by Now Then shows that, when we report rape in South Yorkshire, we are half as likely as non-disabled women to see the person we accuse charged or summonsed.

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