How come sexual assault is one of hardest crime to prosecute vs every other crime?
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There’s rarely any evidence. This is partially because the victim typically isn’t ready to press charges until a while after, sometimes years later. At that point, the biological evidence is gone. Your best bet is the perpetrator having bragged to people via text message or having taken photos, but even that could be gone.
Another aspect is the actual process of testifying as a victim of something traumatic. Your rapist is in the room, and you have this lawyer trying to discredit you in every way possible. Few victims can handle that, and even those who do it might not to a good job because of that.
Finally, in my experience, the police just don’t seem to care about it very much, perhaps because they know it will rarely result in prosecution. From what I’ve seen, they never took his phone or read his texts and never even talked to him. It just seems like they should have done more, but maybe an accusation isn’t enough evidence for a subpoena? Regardless, we didn’t see much of an investigation.
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