{"id":105819,"date":"2017-06-16T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=105819"},"modified":"2017-06-16T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:26:13","slug":"former-rcmp-employee-alleging-sexual-assault-tells-court-she-has-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/16\/former-rcmp-employee-alleging-sexual-assault-tells-court-she-has-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Former RCMP employee alleging sexual assault tells court she has PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_105820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105820\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8460986567_acbd3ab6a1_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105820\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8460986567_acbd3ab6a1_o.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: RCMP E Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C. (Photo: waferboard\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0.)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8460986567_acbd3ab6a1_o.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8460986567_acbd3ab6a1_o-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8460986567_acbd3ab6a1_o-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: RCMP E Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waferboard\/8460986567\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waferboard\" target=\"_blank\">waferboard\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 2.0.<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014A former RCMP employee who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a now-retired inspector in a locked washroom at their Vancouver workplace says she&#8217;s been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant told provincial court today she was diagnosed with PTSD after she left her civilian job with the RCMP.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Shields, who was the public face of the RCMP as the department&#8217;s spokesman in British Columbia, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Court has heard the woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was allegedly sexually assaulted in the fall of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The woman says she suffers from nightmares, pain in her hips, neck, back and knees, and has difficulty concentrating.<\/p>\n<p>Shields left the RCMP in December 2015 and was charged in May 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014A former RCMP employee who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a now-retired inspector in a locked washroom at their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":105820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}