Lucy DeCoutere: We Believe You and Commend Your Bravery

  • by: Amelia Meister
  • recipient: Lucy DeCoutere and her codefendants through Ms DeCoutere's Lawyer Gillain Hnatiw

Lucy DeCoutere and two other women have charged former media sweetheart Jian Ghomeshi with sexual assault and choking. When these charges originally came out more than 10 people came forward, either officially or unofficially, to say that they were assaulted by Ghomeshi.

Ghomeshi's lawyer has used all the dirty tricks possible: discrediting their actions after the assaults and smearing their names. She is also using the general societal victim-blaming rhetoric in sexual assault cases. Sexual assault cases have one of the lowest conviction rates as well as one of the lowest reporting rates and this trial is exactly why: we are taught never to believe women and to ask them to behave in a certain way after the incident, which all studies of victims of sexual assault contradict.

Sign today to send a strong message Lucy DeCoutere that you believe her and her co-defendants. Let them know that their strength to engage in a system that is designed to fail them is commendable and that you support them. 

To Ms DeCoutere and codefendants, 


As a person who believes in women's rights and the end to violence against women, I want to let you know that I believe you. I know that these trials are designed to discredit women and hold them to a misogynistic and unrealistic standard of behaviour. 


I believe all of you and commend your bravery for engaging in such an emotionally charged and public trial. I don't know whether you will find justice but I want you to know that you are putting the flaws in the system into the light and that is important. 


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Sincerely,


[your name]

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