Slow as Molasses AKA the Canadian Justice System

 It's been a long battle watching someone go through the process of laying charges against their rapist. In a nut shell, this is the process as I have understood it so far, in a generalized sense of things.

Step 1 -  Trust someone enough to let them into your life, where they then take advantage of you, sexually assualt you and gaslight you about it not actually happeneing.

Step 2 - Repeat the abuse a couple of more times, until you realize shit, that was not ok

Step 3 - Get the courage to speak to police about what happened

Step 4 - Police lay charges, rapist is arrested and held for bail

Step 5 - Rapist will get bail, because it's Canada and the jails are full

Step 6 - Multiple court dates over several months to exchange information, set dates for setting more dates, etc

Step 7 - More than a year after the initial assault, finally go to trial. Except, this is Canada, and court time is limited, so the trial will be spread out over multiple, non-consecutive days, non-consecutive months and even go into the next calendar year. 

Step 8 - Trial ends, yay! Now they set a date, to set a date to issue judgement

Step 9 - Depending on the judgement, they set a date to set a date to sentence the now guilty rapist

Step 10 - The victim of the now guilty and sentenced rapist needs to get a lawyer to have the publication ban lifted so that they may now tell their proven to be true in court story to help protect future victims of this rapist. 

Step 11 - Rinse and repeat with new victim, because somehow, they always find a new victim

Location: Stratford, ON, Canada

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