Rapist's child - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 08 Aug 2019 03:39:36 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Rapist's child - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Woman born of rape does not count as a victim, say police https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/08/08/rape-victim-police/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:55:41 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=120131 Children born of rape do not count as victims, police have said, after a woman seeks to prosecute her birth father after allegedly raping her mother. The woman, who wants her father brought to justice in a victimless prosecution by using her own DNA as key evidence, discovered the alleged rape while going through her Read more

Woman born of rape does not count as a victim, say police... Read more]]> Children born of rape do not count as victims, police have said, after a woman seeks to prosecute her birth father after allegedly raping her mother.

The woman, who wants her father brought to justice in a victimless prosecution by using her own DNA as key evidence, discovered the alleged rape while going through her adoption records.

The complainant has alleged that her mother was a young teenage schoolgirl, well under the age of consent, when a family friend carried out the rape in the 1970s. Read more

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