MONTREAL - An Ottawa woman says her experience of trying to report a sexual assault that happened in another province led to a “convoluted” back-and-f...
MONTREAL - An Ottawa woman says her experience of trying to report a sexual assault that happened in another province led to a “convoluted” back-and-forth between police forces that has made her reconsider whether she wants to come forward at all.
Dean said that while she can’t say for sure, the events described bore similarities to a violent sexual assault she experienced in 1995 in Quebec City when she was 18 years old. When she called Ottawa police, she was told by the employee on the line that it wasn’t their jurisdiction and she would have to call Quebec provincial police again.
Both Ottawa and Quebec provincial police said they couldn’t comment on specific cases but suggested that an experience like Dean’s should not have happened.
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