impatientredhead
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Under the circumstances, I believe that they would have sedated her had she objected to a GYN exam. She might have been under some sedation anyway, given the turn of events...the reality of the whole ordeal had to have set in hard when police got involved. I'm not talking about anesthesia...although that's not out of the question...I'm thinking more on the line of a tranquilizer, probably by injection. Her health is too important to skip it. Evidence of rape/assault would have also been a high-level consideration but her physical health would have been paramount. I would like to believe that a city like San Francisco would be extremely sensitive to children and to sexual assault and have some very well-trained, highly empathetic medical people to conduct exams such as this.
They have people who are trained to work with sexual assault victims and they will help the victim decide how to proceed, explain why it is important, make them feel safe and secure. According the SANE program there has to be reason to believe the assault happened within the last seventy hours.
But the last thing they are going to do is forcibly exam a rape victim. That would be irresponsible and further traumatize them. The program stats show that victims that are handled by trained medical workers are more likely to comply and more likely to cooperate with prosecution.
If she absolutely did not want to be examined most STDs can be dxed in other ways (blood for many of them), or the exam can be approached again at a later time. But you cannot put forensic collection ahead of the psychological well being of the victim.
As I said in my previous post these charges are really optional all things considered.
I am confident they have handled her with the utmost care for her well being and with an eye towards his prosecution. She has to be so happ to be home tonight.