Sara Fukuda’s Reviews > Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory > Status Update

“true that the adversarial nature of our legal system and constitutional protections such as the right to full and fair cross-examination mean that testifying as a complainant in a sexual assault trial will likely always be psychologically challenging and unpleasant. The criminal justice system is not designed to heal those who have survived sexual harm. But nor should it operate to affect a ‘second rape.’”

“…quoting a woman who after a year-long trial that resulted in the conviction of her attacker, said, “The bulk of my rape trauma is not a result of the sexual assault itself but of the brutality of the legal system. This trauma is difficult to understand for those who have not lived it.””