VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Manchester serial rapist is NOT in the Philippines
There are no statements from British authorities nor reports from U.K.-based and international media that the Indonesian man has escaped.
There are no statements from British authorities nor reports from U.K.-based and international media that the Indonesian man has escaped.
The claims made about the death penalty for the crime of rape in five nations, four of them Islamic, need context.
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Two young Filipinas had a tie that bound them. They were both victims of rape by their kin in their innocence. It was with sheer wonder and fascination that they embarked together on a research journey—validating a finding from an anthropological study of the Bontoks , where no one knew about rape.
NORMA Escobido, family health officer of the Department of Health, has been with the agency for 35 years but has only been working with its Women and Children Protection Unit (WCPU) for two years. She goes around the country, visiting WCPUs in DOH-administered hospitals, talks to rape victims and tells them about their option to pursue their attackers in court. “Only roughly 10 percent of them file cases,” she said. These few women find that government agencies are unable to use the evidence they have collected.
LOCKED up in a small, dark, musty room with broken windows at the bottom of one of the ground-floor stairs of the Philippine General Hospital are hundreds of white boxes—rape kits full of specimen from victims. But the boxes lie idle, exposed to heat and to bugs and rats, their contents ignored and later disposed of without accomplishing their purpose.