I understand the the importance of preserving forensic evidence but this borders on torture – and worse. Or, is this another example of guilty until proven innocent (emphasis mine)?
A woman who was bound and sexually assaulted by her then-neighbour, Col. Russell Williams, says the police left her tied up for five hours after responding to her 911 call.
Laurie Massicotte says Ontario Provincial Police officers told her they had to leave her in the harness, fashioned by Williams, until an OPP photographer arrived to take pictures of her in the restraint.
“I was left for five hours, still in my harness, still tied up, naked, lying under a comforter,” Massicotte, 47, told the Ottawa Citizen in a telephone interview Friday.
“Five hours, no medical attention. I was in total shock. I didn’t know what the heck was going on.”
The OPP, she said, treated her like a criminal in the early hours of the investigation.
One officer told her neighbour, Massicotte said, that police suspected she was trying to “copycat” what happened to another sexual assault victim in Tweed, Ont., 12 days earlier.