Muslim Gang Rapists' victim refuses medical treatment

Muslim gang Rapist's: Skaf brothers.

Medical help
Gang rape victim paralysed by fear
By Byron Kaye
March 10, 2005
Daily Telegraph

SHE was raped 25 times by 14 men over six hours but the victim of one of Sydney's gang rapes refuses to seek any medical help.

She fears her records will fall into the hands of her accused rapists and the lawyers representing them, the case's Crown prosecutor said today.

In the case that drew attention to a spate of gang rapes in western Sydney, Ms C, as the victim is known, was sexually assaulted in a toilet block at Bankstown Trotting Club and at a Chullora industrial estate on August 30, 2000.

Brothers Bilal and Mohammed Skaf, brothers Mahmoud and Mohammed Sanoussi and Mahmoud Chami were convicted of raping Ms C.
A retrial for another man began in August last year, while a seventh man faces a retrial in May over the alleged rape.

The case has been the subject of a raft of appeals and objections over how evidence was obtained and may take at least five years to complete.
The 18-year-old woman is worried that more medical records would mean more cross-examination and more chances for the accused to draw the case out further.
Margaret Cunneen, the senior Deputy New South Wales Crown Prosecutor, who has prosecuted several gang rape trials, said Ms C was concerned her medical records could be used in any future trials.
"I understand from Ms C's father that Ms C will not now attend any medical practitioner or other health worker for any reason whatsoever," Ms Cunneen said during her Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture at the University of Newcastle tonight.
"(Ms C is) fearful that her private medical records will be subpoenaed and come into the hands of the accused."
Ms C was also, as Ms Cunneen put it, "subjected to the gratuitous degradation of being hosed down in a dark, deserted industrial estate on a winter's night".
Ms Cunneen said the trial involving Ms C had been hijacked by technicalities in her attackers' favour.
In one instance, a telephone discussion between two alleged attackers was dismissed as evidence because it contained no admission of guilt, even though it showed "deep interest" in the crime.
In another, psychiatrists for the defendants were allowed to test the accuracy of Ms C's initial evidence by questioning her in one retrial last August - four years after her attack.
"The defence psychiatrist, who has not examined the complainant either at the time she was raped or at any time since, will say that (Ms C) should not be believed in relation to her identification of the accused", Ms Cunneen predicted.
When judges agreed to retry one of the attackers a year ago, Ms Cunneen was chastised for commenting to the media and allegedly influencing the case against the defendants.
"There seems to be a fashion among some in the criminal justice system for a kind of misplaced altruism that it is somehow a noble thing to assist a criminal to evade conviction," Ms Cunneen said.
"Justice isn't achieved by ambush, trickery, dragging proceedings out in a war of attrition with witnesses.
"It's achieved by honesty, balance and proportion."
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