Sunday 15 May 2022 11:31 AM Australian sailor 'drugged and raped' on New Zealand ship is told it can't be ... trends now
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An Australian sailor who was drugged and raped while on exchange with the Royal New Zealand navy has been told it cannot be investigated because it took place overseas.
Jennifer was 26 when she was attacked by a senior officer in 2007 while serving on HMNZ as the ship was docked at Sembawang port in Singapore.
She reported the sexual assault to a supervisor the next day, who dissuaded her from making a formal complaint, warning she would be sent home to Australia and be known as the 'girl who got raped'.
In 2018, she found the courage to report the rape. The Commonwealth Ombudsman replied to say it would not launch a probe.
Jennifer (pictured) was raped while on exchange with the Royal New Zealand Navy in 2007
'What leaves me feeling the most betrayed is the one paragraph email back saying it was out of jurisdiction. I was so gutted,' Jennifer told The Sunday Telegraph.
New to the ship, the young exchange sailor was invited out for drink with seniors and agreed to have just a 'few beers' - which she believes were spiked.
After her second drink, she started to feel off and began losing control of her speech and body, prompting one of the seniors to offer to get her a taxi back to the ship.
Her next memory was being in the back of the vehicle with her attacker as he reached up her skirt while she was having
