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Can doctors tell if someone has been raped a few weeks after?
This is for a novel I'm writing. Would a doctor be able to tell that a person had been raped, or suspect they had, even say 3 weeks after? Or if not, how long after? Like would there be tearing etc?
Thanks
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
It depends on the amount of physical injury. If it was very severe and violent enough to have caused the skin around the vagina to tear badly then I would think yes, if it was slow to heal. But I'm not sure how reliable that could be in terms of evidence for court.
You can research how long it takes for women to heal after they experience some tearing during childbirth, but I would think rape wouldn't cause injuries like that, unless the rapist was using a weapon. I really hope so, anyway :(