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DASO Response to Ghomeshi Affair

Sunday, 2 November 2014 10:44

Domestic Abuse Services for Oxford comments on the women who have filed police reports alleging abuse from ex-CBC host Jian Ghomeshi.

OXFORD COUNTY - Three women have come forward in the past week to file reports of sexual abuse to police alleging former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi assaulted them. Other women spoke to the media in anonymity. One woman's article in the Huffington Post alleges and incident of assault occurred several years ago. Rhonda Hendel from Domestic Abuse Services in Oxford said that not many sexual assaults are actually reported.

"We know that only 4 percent of sexual assaults are reported whether female or male, which means 96 out of 100 are never reported."

Hendel says many women that come through their doors have not reported abuse. "We see women all the time here, we have a sexual assault counselling program here and the majority of women who come to the counselling program here -- we are the first person they've told, they've never told anyone else, there is that fear of not being believed...."

She adds that in light of recent media stories of alleged assault in connection with former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, there are a number of reasons why the women making these claims have not come forward before.

"If you listened to all the stories on the CBC and all the other media now brought forward, some of these women have been saying is that they blame themselves because they went knowingly with this person but they didn't expect to be assaulted and when it's over they're shocked did they do something wrong?" Quite often Hendel adds, "They blame themselves rather than looking at it and saying I was assaulted and this is wrong."

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