Lydia's Law aims to increase accountability in the handling of sexual assault cases and protect survivors. Last week, survivors and advocates attended the Queen's Park debate, and some shared their experiences of Ontario's broken justice system in this video.
"The current justice system is more akin to rape and IPV than people would like to admit. It tramples over our bodies, our freedoms, our rights. It creates illnesses in our brains and also our bodies, all while demanding compliance while stripping us bare. A system which mimics the acts which it has sworn to condemn is not just."
"Lydia's Law is very important to me because it demands accountability. It demands proper oversight. It demands true justice, and it demands that survivors are taken care of - all things that we have gone without."
Stacey
Rape and IPV / Attempted murder survivor