Policewoman sues the Met for £200,000 after she had to watch 100 child rape videos during investigation

by Guest Sun May 06, 2018 8:59 am

[*]Cara Creaby, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, joined the Met in 2009
[*]Three years later became part of the ‘Sapphire Unit’ handling child abuse cases
[*]In what is thought to be first case of its kind the 29-year-old is suing Met Police
[*]Exposed to ‘harrowing and dangerous material’ investigating rape of young girls
[*]Caused ‘intrusive flashbacks and nightmares’, ruined sex life and PTSD

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by nicko Sun May 06, 2018 9:29 am

She could have refused to watch saying it upset her.
I wonder why she carried on?
£200.000 will help her to forget?

by Vintage Sun May 06, 2018 10:47 am

Nonsense, its a job you sign up to knowing what you potentially could be faced with. Firefighters, ambulance people, doctors, nurses all see terrible things, even undertakers. She should get therapy perhaps but not £200,000 as Nicko says how will that help her?

by magica Sun May 06, 2018 10:48 am

I couldn't watch them, but wasn't it part of her job?

She could've withdrawn. Instead watched 100 child rapes, before it affected her.

I'm not buying this, shes just after compo, she shouldn't get. What about all the other officers who watched them are they entitled to it.

What about when they have to go to scenes of murder, rape, terrorism, etc. They are trained, otherwise hundreds would be claiming.

by Raggamuffin Sun May 06, 2018 12:40 pm

Yes, it was her job. I don't supposed they forced her to move to that unit.

by eddie Sun May 06, 2018 12:53 pm

She’s a greedy, stupid cow who doesn’t deserve to serve the police force. Money-mad people who are lucky enough to be employed in a really worthwhile job who then go on to try and extract money from their employers, really make me want to vomit.
I hope she fucking loses her case.

Or she could join the Fire Department then sue them for getting smoke in her hair.

by Raggamuffin Sun May 06, 2018 1:10 pm

It ruined her sex life, but she managed to get married and have a baby whilst she was off sick. How did that happen then?

Don't police officers realise that they're investigating crimes, which by default are generally unpleasant?

by Ben Reilly Sun May 06, 2018 5:21 pm

Just to play the devil's advocate here, why did she have to watch 100 videos of child rape? Was she supposed to remember them all, remember what the victims or the perpetrators looked like?

Just don't see the purpose of it, and I imagine it would be like torture.

by veya_victaous Mon May 07, 2018 1:56 am

nicko wrote:She could have refused to watch saying it upset her.
I wonder why she carried on?
£200.000 will help her to forget?

she did tell her supervisors that she was struggling and she was told to Carry on with the job.

if you read the whole article I think she has a case as she did raise it but didn't get offered the help she is supposed to have been.
it actually seems fairly open shut case of the employer failing their OHS responsibilities.

It is claimed Mrs Creaby told her superiors ‘multiple times’ about the volume of her work and the effect it was having on her, but she was just told to ‘carry on as best she could’.

According to her lawyer, David Mies at Slater & Gordon, there was no risk assessment, offers of help or consideration of how to share the workload.

By March 2015, Mrs Creaby was said to be ‘visibly struggling’ and became ‘more tired, unkempt, short with colleagues and emotional in the workplace’ but again was allegedly not given any support.

She also began to ‘experience intrusive flashbacks and nightmares of the child rape she had been required to watch’ and also ‘noticed that when she was with her partner, any act of intimacy caused her to panic and become tearful’.

She was referred to Occupational Health and in April they suggested reduced hours, but she was still sent to speak to one of the girls in the case and attend D’Costa’s court hearing, at which he pleaded guilty to 25 sexual offences.

by veya_victaous Mon May 07, 2018 1:58 am

Amazing HOW different a story is when you read the lot instead of just a few dot points. It's almost like Summarizing an article greatly diminishes the information it conveys.

Just saying (for the lazy people) tongue

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