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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: Korean hospitals don't keep rape kits on hand |
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The attitudes expressed by doctors in this article are pretty shocking. Obvious lack of concern for victims.
http://koreabeat.com/?p=832
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While training last year at a university hospital in Seoul, says 32-year old Kang Hye-jeong (not her real name), �I was shocked to find that our hospitals are completely unprepared to treat female victims of sexual assault.� In July 2007 Kang saw a young girl in the delivery room. The nurses and other hospital staff said to one another, �who�s the child?� �Oh, she�s been sexually assaulted.� It was a Sunday so the gynecologist was not seeing patients. The child did not receive the proper psychological care that a young victim of a sex crime needs. The hospital also did not have a rape kit (성폭력 응급키트), the most basic equipment there is for the treatment of sexual assault victims.
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Kang said, �it�s embarassing that a university hospital with top-quality medical facilities and treatment, psychiatrists, obstetricians and gynecologists, and internal medicine specialists doesn�t have even one rape kit for collecting evidence.�
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The hospitals we contacted generally seemed to feel that, �those cases are so rare,� or �we�ve never had that kind of patient�. Sexual assault is not a crime that gives advance notice. Its victims don�t give advance notice to the hospital before coming. The hospitals, which never know if a patient with deadly wounds might be coming, just say �we don�t know� there aren�t so many cases.� |
Perhaps if the quoted docters got their heads out of their asses more women would go to the hospital. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:10 am Post subject: Re: Korean hospitals don't keep rape kits on hand |
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The hospitals we contacted generally seemed to feel that, “those cases are so rare,” or “we’ve never had that kind of patient”. |
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Fucking dirtbags. Even when a child has been victimized, they have to shill for the mother country and act as if it's a crime that never happens in Korea. People like this need to have their fucking licenses revoked, and then, hopefully, get raped themselves.
The Hypocratic Oathe... apparently another of the "putting on a Western facade" aspects of Korean culture.
PS - Yeah, sorry this is so bitter and anti-Korean, but that's a fucking third-world excuse there. I can understand ignoring it if you live in a culture where a raped girl is killed for being "soiled," but when you live in a "modern" nation, there's no excuse for this kind of bullshit. Ugh. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Why doesn't this surprise me??? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:30 am Post subject: |
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I think many Korean women do not bother reporting rape and just try to find a way to live with it and the scars and ignore what happened.
I am not sure. That's my guess. The government doesn't really care about rape victims. The feminists seem to only succeed in getting some raids done on brothels. I am not sure what power women have in Korea, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of female solidarity in Korea. But, then again, I don't know this country extremely well, but I just haven't heard about that... Anyone? |
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