Kate Juby, 24, was raped by a motor-vehicle driver in April 2017 when she took a ride on the 33-year-old man. The young woman was in Portugal not only to know the Portuguese culture, but also to go to a music festival near Aljezur, in the Algarve.
Now, almost two years after the rape and four months after the sentence of the offender - sentenced at the Lagos Court to four years and six months suspended sentence - the young woman decided to divulge what happened and says she does not want any another woman faces the same ordeal in the hands of the Portuguese legal system.
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https://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/turista-britanica-violada-em-portugal-quebra-o-anonimato-para-mudar-o-system-juridico-portugues?ref=HP_DestaqueAfter the attack, she managed to escape to the main road for help. A German couple rescued her, covered her with a blanket, and took care of her until the police arrived. When she arrived at the hospital, Kate claims that the treatment she received was another nightmare: "They put me in a bed and took all my clothes." The doctor told me to stop crying and that I needed to grow up. arm and injected me with two liquids that I did not know what they were. " The woman claims that they subsequently took blood samples from her and did the harvest to collect DNA while telling her not to cry. "The doctor was very cruel to me. It was horrible," he says. The injections were antiretrovirals - used to suppress HIV - and antibiotics. The young woman will also have received emergency contraceptive pills. It followed the Judicial Police of Portimão where Kate affirms not to have been given nor a glass of water during several hours.
The assailant was later caught by the authorities where he would have been in sight of Kate. "It was as traumatic as being raped." I began to cry hysterically, "Six hours earlier, this man had raped me," he told the newspaper Mirror .
It took 18 months for the perpetrator to be brought to court, and while he was entitled to legal aid, he had to use Pro Bono Portugal, a group of volunteer lawyers who offer advice to those who can not afford it. She and her family only met the lawyer two hours before the case came to the Lagos Court in October 2018. The man was sentenced to suspended and to pay damages that Kate claims to have donated to a Portuguese charity. According to the British newspaper Mirror, the young woman was horrified when Tiago Curado de Sousa left the court arm in arm with the woman. According to the young woman, months of therapy, nightmares and the difficulty of returning to work followed. Kate plans to appeal the judgment of Curado de Sousa.
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Please note most sentences which are under 5 years are suspended in Portugal. There is normally an order for the assailant to pay the victim, on a monthly basis.
The maximum sentence Kate McCann could have got for body occultation was 2 years. She could hardly have been ordered to pay monthly compensation to Madeleine,
She would have walked away as free as a bird.
Unless her lawyer was a total dumbwit, he should have instructed her of these simple facts. Her book "madeleine" implies otherwise.
Alzejur was/is a favourite holiday resort of the then British Prime Minister, David Cameron.
