Impunity in rape cases thrives

by IRIN | on Jun22 2010

FREETOWN – Police records in Sierra Leone show that after months of court appearances, Janice, 35, dropped charges against the four men she said gang-raped her and then filled her vagina with sand. This is one of nearly 1,000 cases of sexual assault filed in 2009 in which the perpetrators were never punished.

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