A teenage girl has told of her trauma after her alleged rapist was able to avoid justice under government-backed rules that give offenders an alternative to prosecution.
Kaitlyn Ward was just 14 when she was attacked near a golf club by the 16-year-old, who she did not know, and immediately reported it to police, enduring a full sexual assault examination and questioning by detectives.
But despite substantial evidence, Crown prosecutors enacted “diversion from prosecution” rules that allowed him to avoid a trial and possible criminal conviction report the Record.
