Once locked inside, I called the police. According to their police report was at 11::40pm. They did not arrive to my apartment until well after 12am despite a police station being only 5 minutes by walk from my house. I didn’t trust that the police believed me and understood to come so I also called my friends, but they too, were all far away. When the 2 policemen showed up, the man was gone. I told the police what happened and that I need to go to a hospital right away but their first words to me was to say “Where are your panties and give me your Alien Registration ID card”. I managed to find my ID card and I gave it to him and then ran out my door to try to get someone else to get me an ambulance. The police came out and told me to sit in the back of their police car, which I did. Soon after, the ambulance came and they did not help into the ambulance on a stretcher. They opened up their sliding side door and told me to walk in. I did and lay down on the stretcher, unattended by anyone

The first place I was taken was called Samsung Medical Center. When we arrived there, again I was not taken in on a stretcher, but instead the two ambulance workers opened the door and told me to get out. As we were walking in, they did not assist me in walking and wouldn’t even open the hospital doors for me until I pulled up the back of my running pants which had slipped down to reveal the top of my panties. I was laid on a stretcher and someone came to clean my face and photograph my injuries. Within a short amount of time a number of my friends and coworkers began arriving and immediately we worked together to recall what I could of the attack while the hospital workers were deciding where to send me. I explained to them first of all what happened and asked them to please test my fingernails for his DNA because I probably scratched him. My friends (no police were to be found now) then got a pen and paper and were asking for his description and also began listing the places I could remember he touched: My window, my wallet, my bag, my refrigerator, my door lock, my sink faucet---all places that could be tested for fingerprints. This first hospital also took pictures of my injuries which now are LOST. The hospital has told the US Embassy that they do not have a camera to even take pictures; while they told my friend who inquired about them that they just don’t have record of my name for that date.

The appeals court ruled that the woman had shown no evidence of having refused the man's advances, and that he used "not enough violence to constitute rape."

how did the person who raped her manage to get her into his or her home?

there needs to be some serious reforms made in the police departments...i doubt that she was mistreated because she was a foreigner..people who work at hospitals and at the police are just not-caring low-paid losers who cant be bothered to help people.

I don't think it was racial related also. It is quite possible that the Korean police have a lack of experience with the issue and a lack of understanding of how severe the issue is. She was not dying, and she walked out and in to the hospital on her own, so it's understandable why the paramedics did not bother putting her on a stretcher.

Remember, rape is more a mental than a physical damage to the victim. A guy who was raped would probably stay at home and nurse his wounds and ego.

I did not say that rape was trivial, I said that in most rape cases, the victims are not seriously physical injured but suffer more from psychological victimization. The example of "a guy staying at home nursing his wounds" is only to show that the damage from rape is more mental than physical.

Considering that she was able to walk to the ambulance, walk out of it, and walk to the hospital showed that she was physically well enough such that the police/paramedics did not feel the need to "hold her hand". If she were bleeding to death, you could probably expect a much more efficient response.

It is not BEYOND the realm of possibility that the policeman/paramedics do not know how serious rape is, or maybe did not understand her.

Why the hell does a rape victim need a stretcher? Did the rapist cripple her legs or something?

Why the hell does a rape victim need a stretcher? Did the rapist cripple her legs or something?

Why the hell does a rape victim need a stretcher? Did the rapist cripple her legs or something?

http://time.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/...ized/foley1.jpg
There is so much about this woman's story which is just appalling. I wonder if a Korean woman would be treated so badly -- having personally seen rape victims in the States treated in a similar manner, I wouldn't really be surprised.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200405/16/2...0090409041.html
That's so infuriating. An attitude which is, sadly, still common in many countries including the USA.

In theory, yes, the US system is much better. But police and, especially, juries act on their own prejudices -- there was a case a few years ago, in Texas I think, where a jury acquitted a man of rape because his victim had begged him to use a condom. And like I said, I personally have witnessed cases where authorities treated victims with criminal indifference -- one of my fellow students in university was a serial rapist who was never punished because his father was an important diplomat.

Then she should've told the police officers that she's hurt very bad, like screaming in agony whenever making movements. But I doubt you can get such grievous wounds from a rape. You get a few slaps, or maybe some hits with the fist, you get fu-ked and that's pretty much it.