Lack of sexually related injuries does not mean rape victim was ‘making it up,’ says study
Euler diagram illustrating the numbers of study participants who were either sexual assault survivors or had consensual sexual intercourse, and whether they had anogenital injuries on examination. Credit: eClinicalMedicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102266 The absence of sexually related injuries cannot be used in court to infer that rape victims are “making it up,” a new study
Raleigh Schewe
October 7, 2023