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Assault victim mocked by officers
Accidental voicemail catches RCMP mocking assault complainant
'So did she deserve to get hit?' one officer asks, laughing
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A Nova Scotia woman has lodged a complaint with the federal RCMP watchdog after listening to an inadvertent voicemail message in which several "Neanderthal" officers could be heard cursing and making light of a domestic assault she had reported.
The woman fears for her safety and the safety of her children because of a previous relationship. CBC News has agreed to protect her identity.
The woman's problems began last week when she was hosting a family gathering at her house near Parrsboro in Cumberland County. She said her partner became angry and he stormed out of the house with her cellphone
Concerned that he would start harassing her friends and family whose names were stored in the phone, she set off to retrieve it from her boyfriend's house in Springhill, approximately 35 kilometres away.
While driving there, she swerved to avoid a deer on the road and ended up plunging her car down an embankment, she said. Wet and cold, she said she walked for about an hour before a passing motorist picked her up and delivered her to her boyfriend's house in Springhill.
Her boyfriend was still angry and refused to hand over her phone, she said.
"He had already called the police — his friends, as he says — that I was there assaulting him," she told CBC News on Monday.
She said he started assaulting her.
"He had me around the neck," she said. "He threw my coat and my shoes out."
She said he was dragging her by the hair and trying to throw her out the door when RCMP arrived. Some officers drove her home. When they questioned her about her car accident, she told them her boyfriend had assaulted her.
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