{"id":12234,"date":"2021-07-14T06:42:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=12234"},"modified":"2021-07-14T06:42:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:42:39","slug":"victim-of-alleged-child-sex-assault-says-interview-with-lethbridge-officer-like-a-slap-in-the-face-canadian-broadcasting-corporation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=12234","title":{"rendered":"“Victim of alleged child sex assault says interview with Lethbridge officer ‘like a slap in the face'”, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Accused goes on trial in November charged with sexual assault, sexual interference<\/em><\/p>\n

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Allie, right, and her mother stand outside the Lethbridge courthouse where Edmond Armit’s trial will take place later this year. Allie says when she disclosed to police that she’d been sexually assaulted, she left the interview feeling dismissed and discouraged. (Meghan Grant\/CBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A young Lethbridge, Alta., woman who says she was molested as a child by her mother’s former boyfriend was left feeling abandoned, embarrassed and hopeless after the police officer who took her statement chuckled during the interview and told her he’d never seen a conviction in a historic sexual assault case.<\/p>\n

“It was like a slap in the face,” said\u00a0Allie, who is now 23.<\/p>\n

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“There was no care, there was no protection, there was nothing for me.”<\/p>\n

CBC News is calling the woman Allie \u2014\u00a0her real name cannot be used because of a publication ban on her identity. The officer is also not being identified because\u00a0he hasn’t been charged with any offences under the Police Act.<\/p>\n

Through the advocacy of Allie’s mother, the case landed on the right desk at the Lethbridge Police Service, and sexual assault charges were ultimately laid.<\/p>\n

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