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An Australian sailor who was drugged and raped whereas on change with the Royal New Zealand navy has been told it can not be investigated as a result of it passed off abroad.

Jennifer was 26 when she was attacked by a senior officer in 2007 whereas serving on HMNZ because the ship was docked at Sembawang port in Singapore.

She reported the sexual assault to a supervisor the following day, who dissuaded her from making a proper criticism, warning she would be despatched house to Australia and be generally known as the ‘woman who obtained raped’. 

In 2018, she discovered the braveness to report the rape. The Commonwealth Ombudsman replied to say it wouldn’t launch a probe. 

Jennifer (pictured) was raped whereas on change with the Royal New Zealand Navy in 2007 

‘What leaves me feeling probably the most betrayed is the one paragraph electronic mail again saying it was out of jurisdiction. I used to be so gutted,’ Jennifer told The Sunday Telegraph. 

New to the ship, the younger change sailor was invited out for drink with seniors and agreed to have only a ‘few beers’ – which she believes have been spiked.

After her second drink, she began to really feel off and started shedding management of her speech and physique, prompting one of many seniors to supply to get her a taxi again to the ship.

Her subsequent reminiscence was being behind the car along with her attacker as he reached up her skirt whereas she was having hassle talking and controlling her limbs. 

Around that point, she believes she handed out, along with her reminiscences from that time onwards returning solely in flashes. 

‘I bear in mind being bare on a mattress and rolled onto my chest. The subsequent reminiscence I’ve is of him grabbing my hair and forcing my head down and saying: “Choke on it white b***”. That is my solely different reminiscence till I wakened bare, lined in vomit, semen and urine.’

Jennifer stated she then remembers having a shower, burning herself with the new faucet then deciding to only use chilly water, earlier than getting dressed and leaving. 

When she told her supervisor the following day, he stated he had heard she went to the lodge with the person willingly and he wouldn’t inform her husband.

Despite explaining she had been drugged, the supervisor discouraged her from reporting the assault. 

‘He stated that if I report it I’d be despatched house to Australia and identified endlessly because the woman who obtained raped. He stated this might be a really arduous factor for my husband to dwell with as a result of how would anybody know it was rape after I was shit-faced.’

Jennifer determined to not take additional motion, conserving her horrific assault suppressed in her reminiscence for 9 years till reporting it to the Commonwealth Ombudsmen.

Jennifer was told the rape wouldn’t be investigated as a result of it was out of the Commonwealth’s ‘jurisdiction’. Pictured: International Naval ships off the Whangaparoa Penninsula in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2016

The report additionally contained complaints about different abuse Jennifer suffered throughout her time within the Navy, together with sexual discrimination, bastardisation and sexual harassment. 

In response, the division acknowledged her ‘braveness’ coming ahead however stated her experiences didn’t meet the brink for the ‘most severe types of abuse’.

The letter additionally didn’t handle her issues that the ADF had an obligation of care to analyze her supervisor’s refusal to report her rape. 

Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Defence Minister for remark. 

In 2016, Royal Commission was held into allegations of sexual abuse towards males and girls cadets throughout the Australian Defence Force. 

The listening to targeted on allegations pertaining to Fremantle naval base HMAS Leeuwin from 1960 to 1980, the Army Apprentice School at Balcombe Victoria within the 1970’s, and ADF Cadets on the whole from 2000 to current.

The inquiry discovered sexual assault practices throughout all three intervals, with information offered to the inquiry displaying there had been a complete of 154 allegations made to the ADF since 2001.