The Wire

Very few rape cases get to court, and of those few result in the offender going to gaol. It’s always been a problematic area of the law and even though victims get more support than they used to there’s still an element of “she must have asked for it” in the way a woman is treated – and that’s the reason many women decide to stay quiet and try to just forget. Tegan Wagner was 14 when went out for a night with two more sophisticated friends. They ended up alone in a house with a number of men and Tegan was gang raped. She didn’t stay quiet – she spent four years in the legal system before the offenders were convicted and gaoled and now she’s written a book about the experience – “The making of me.”