Campbell's article

Campbell’s article is very interesting, victims of rape face a lot challenges and Campbell describes perfectly what they go through. As a victim of domestic violence and sexual assault advocate, I can see this happened a lot. Rape victims are traumatizing with what they had experience. It is difficult for them to remember everything because is painful for them or they feel ashamed. I remember the first time I needed to advocate a victim of rape, it was not easy because she needed to talk with two police officers, I was shock of what I was hearing, an 18 year old girl was been rape since she was about 10 years old, and she couldn’t tell anybody because of her religion, she knew what she was experiencing wasn’t right but at the same time she didn’t know where to go but after talking with an advocate like Campbell explained she was more likely to do the report.

For those victims that need to get to the emergency room is so traumatic, they need to go through a very tedious examination. As an advocates we can be there but we have to be careful to get close to the victims, otherwise we can contaminate and the test can have different results. I haven’t experience an examination after a victim had been rape but I had received training on that. Campbell mentions about rape survivors and how it can be to go through the medical system.

The other process that they face an in which I’m more familiar is with the legal system, so far our victims feel comfortable with advocates in their side, specially because most of them don’t understand how the legal system works. I have see victims that the more you explain a legal process the less they can understand.

Talking with victims after their medical and legal process they just remember that a victim advocate was there for them. They forget a lot detail of their process while we learn more about some cases; they just feel that at least somebody was there to support them.