Rape can be reported up to 20 years later

Rape can be reported up to 20 years later

Rape survivors have up to 20 years to report incidents that have happened to them. This is according to the Legal Assistance Centre’s Yolande Engelbrecht, co-ordinator of their Gender, Research, and Advocacy Project at a gender-based violence (GBV) workshop that took place at Swakopmund over the past week. “The statute of rape is 20 years. You can still report the act within that timeframe,” she said. This key GBV discussion was a highlight of t…

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