It is beginning to get very nasty

in politics. Both major parties are attempting to find anything at all that they can use to accuse their opposition of sexual misbehaviour and more. 

It doesn't matter in the least whether it is true or not. There simply has to be a whiff of it and it is headline material - to be blown out of all proportion. The media is stirring it all, bringing it to the boil, allowing it to spill over, and leaving a trail of destruction for others to pick up.

Yes, I know there is an election coming up. I know that this sort of thing always occurs around election time. It always has. It always will. That said there is no excuse for using a vulnerable young woman in order to further your own ambitions for power. 

No, this is not about the two young women who appeared at the National Press Club. They had plenty of support there and they have plenty of support in other places. That doesn't mean that what they allege to have happened to them - or has been proven to have happened - isn't serious. It is. It is very serious.  This is about a young woman who did not want her situation to be made public. Yes, she made a complaint and she expected that complaint would be kept confidential. There was every intention that it would be kept confidential but the opposition discovered it by very dubious means and they have used it.  Oh they "sympathise" with the complainant. Really? 

If they really sympathised with the complainant then they would have said nothing. What they are doing is putting her through a far worse experience.  This young woman did not want her intensely distressing experience to be made public. It took courage for her to make the complaint in the first place. Now she wishes she had said nothing.

This appalls me. In order to score a cheap political point the opposing side is deliberately going against the wishes of a traumatised young woman. They are not actually being caring and sympathetic at all. They are doing the exact opposite of that. What is more they are they are actually discouraging others not to make complaints when something unacceptable and even criminal happens.

It is already hard enough for people to come forwards with such complaints. It is hard for them to be heard and, if heard, to be taken seriously.  This sort of behaviour is absolutely unacceptable.