Warning: This article contains details of child sexual abuse and may be distressing.
Jamie, 29, doesn’t remember a lot of what the RCMP officer said when she, as an 11-year-old child, went to report her stepfather sexually assaulting her, but she remembers how she felt: scared, uncomfortable, and like they did not believe her.
“It was kind of a horrible experience. I felt like I was being interrogated,” she said, thinking back to 2006, when she says she was questioned alone in a room by a West Shore RCMP officer in a Greater Victoria detachment.
“It almost seemed like they were annoyed to
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