What is the impact of having to contact the police twice about sexual abuse?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Kviatkovsky v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 1999 CanLII 8318 (FC):
In my view this case is comparable to Kadenka v. Canada (Solicitor General) 1996 CanLII 3981 (FCA), [1996] 124 F.T.R. 160, where the following certified question was decided in the negative: In the case before me the principal female applicant contacted the police twice about her abuser, a prominent, wealthy and influential man, and her efforts were unsuccessful.
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