Sexual offence victims say they are alienated by court process
Victims of sexual offences in Northern Ireland say they were lost in a broken criminal justice system and made to feel insignificant.
One woman who spoke to the BBC, Amanda Brown, was abused by her stepfather David Tweed, a well-known unionist politician and Irish international rugby player.
She told BBC News NI that without any official legal support she felt lost.
She said: "I was going in there completely blind to the entire process not knowing what to expect and that in itself was probably the biggest cause of anxiety, not to mention that you're going in to talk about your trauma".
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