Cuan CEO Stephanie O’Keefe: ‘There is no doubt some go into homelessness as a result of domestic violence’
Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe discusses Andrew Tate, the use of victims’ counselling notes in rape trials and why Ireland needs to face up to the scale of sexual violence against children
Dr Stephanie O’Keefe, CEO of Cuan, the State’s first agency tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Photo: Frank McGrath
The heartbreaking practice of using rape victims’ counselling notes in court cases should be banned, the head of the State’s first domestic and gender-based violence agency has said.
In her first wide-ranging interview since Cuan was set up last year, chief executive Stephanie O’Keeffe said she could not “reconcile” the use of a victim’s notes with any sense of fairness or justice, and that rape crisis counsellors have been actively avoiding taking any notes that could be used against a survivor in a trial.
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