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- Taranaki Hysteria December 2006 |
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Former Taranaki Detective and
National Party Police spokesman Chester Borrows is urging Taranaki drug rape
survivors to authorise the release of private information to police tracking those
behind recent sex attacks. "As the Member of Parliament
for South Taranaki, and having investigated many, many sexual assaults in the
past, I want to see these rapists out of circulation. People have the right
to enjoy the social company of others without the fear of being violated. "I strongly support Rape
Crisis and know that they have confidential records going back years. In some
cases serial sexual predators are allegedly identified. "But, Rape Crisis is unable
to pass this information on to the Police because of the confidential and
private nature of the information these rape victims have given to the
support agency. "Those of us who have never
been raped can't possibly understand the vulnerability and sensitivity of the
victims of sex crimes. I fully support their rights and the reasons why this
information is kept confidential. "But I believe that drug rape
survivors may hold a key to these types of offences, in that once they feel
safe and supported, they could instruct Rape Crisis and sexual abuse
counsellors to release any information in their individual cases that may
assist the investigation in Taranaki. "The nature of sexual
assaults is that the preparation usually takes place in public and the actual
assault in private, so there is also every chance that some suspicious
behaviour will have been witnessed, but may not have been recognised as such.
"I join with the police and
urge anyone with any information about these crimes to come forward,"
says Mr Borrows. |
