time and a place

When I went to the ER on Tuesday to have my strep confirmed (since I don't have a regular doctor), a girl came in with a bunch of her friends and the police. It became pretty clear pretty quickly what had happened to her. But the strangest thing was how it was all handled. They didn't take her back to a private room right away, she sat out there for quite a while. And the police officers were questioning her friends right in the waiting room of the ER, right in front of myself and my friend. And they were also questioning her friends right in front of her. I really can't think of anything more inappropriate and unprofessional. I tried really hard not to be an ear hustler, I made a serious effort not to get sucked in to watching the whole thing play out like some episode of Law & Order SVU, but it was really difficult when they were standing not more than fifteen feet away from me and not really trying very hard to be discreet. I can't imagine what it would have been like if there were more people there and they weren't trying not to notice what was going on. It was appalling how insensitively it was handled and whenever stuff like that happens, it makes me really wonder why people are surprised that most women don't report rapes.