Victims of unwanted sex can end the silence

ON behalf of Rape Crisis Network Ireland, which has commissioned the law faculty at NUI Galway to undertake the largest study conducted in Ireland into the causes of under-reporting and cases ‘falling out of’ the judicial process, I ask any readers who may have been the victim of unwanted sex, to consider (confidentially) telling those researchers of their experience.

The timescale for this research means we are in the closing weeks whereby these voices — that have often been effectively silenced by guilt or shame or inappropriate self-blame — can be heard.

And we need them to be heard.