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Daniel Keane

Absence of sexually-related injuries can’t be used in court to infer rape victims are lying - study

The absence of sexually related injuries cannot be used in court to infer that rape victims are lying, according to a new study.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham analysed the last 30 years of published medical research to compare anogenital injury (AGI) in women who had been raped with those who had engaged in consensual sex.

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