There is a story all over the news here. See this story for some more details, but basically RCMP put two female prisoners in the same cell, and they had an "intimate encounter" which lasted between 30 and 60 minutes. The guards watched via CC-TV and did not stop it.
There is no hint, so far, that the "encounter" was non-consensual, so I'm assuming this wasn't rape. Everyone knows, or should know, that the jail cells are monitored by CC-TV, so both women knew they were being watched. Either they wanted to put on a show, or they didn't care.
In this situation, does anyone really expect the police officers to stop them? These are young guys and girls, in a culture where machismo is a basic job requirement (even for the women). I know they are supposed to stop any inappropriate behaviour, but I can see them taking a "no harm, no foul" attitude. Kind of like getting free coffee might be technically an improper gift (a bribe), but really, nobody objects because no police officer is going to give someone preferential treatment because of a free coffee.
As it turns out, one of the women is HIV positive, and had not informed the other woman, so that was technically an assault. But the police did not know this, so I don't think they can be faulted for not acting on knowledge they didn't have.
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