Judge asks rape victim if she tried ‘closing her legs’ to stop attacker

A female judge is facing a campaign to be suspended following an 'offensive' line of questioning towards a rape victim when she tried to report the incident. 

The woman, who is also five months pregnant, had turned to police to report her partner who she claimed was "repeatedly abusing her both sexually and physically."

When the woman tried to tell her account of being sexually assaulted at her local police station, the magistrate is believed to have interrupted the story by asking humiliating questions. 

The judge is said to have asked the woman if she had closed "her legs and all [her] female organs" among other questionable enquiries.  

Judge Maria del Carmen Molina Mansilla is now facing a campaign calling for her suspension spearheaded by the Clara Camoamor Association, a group that campaigns on behalf of victims of sexual crime. 

"She showed obvious disbelief of the testimony of the victim, questioned her without allowing her to answer, asking leading and offensive questions," said a spokesperson for the group. 

The group is also claiming that Maria has shown similar attitudes towards other victims and they had received similar complaints about the judge in the past. 

"Such questions are not only unnecessary to the investigation but are completely offensive and violate the dignity of the victim.

"Unfortunately this is not an isolated act but such behaviour [by this judge] is habitual and continuous."