With lawsuits and prosecutions gathering pace, those involved in setting the key rate in finance need to get moving.
Reforms being considered include making domestic violence cases more of a priority, improving evidence gathering and prosecution rates, and arresting offenders instead of issuing them with notices to appear in court.
A huge amount has been written about the handling of rape allegations, and the need to improve the methods of evidence-gathering and prosecution, so cases like this simply shouldn't happen.
Those issues include the proper balance between security and liberty, between intelligence gathering and criminal prosecution, and between government secrecy and accountability.
In the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing that ripped apart a federal building and killed 168 people, he was dispatched to the city to set up the early stages of the prosecution case, winning plaudits for gathering large amounts of evidence that led to the convictions of both McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
The jury is not yet out on the Scotland boss: the prosecution and defence are still gathering evidence.
And Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s office promised on Friday that "members of the news media will not be subject to prosecution based solely on news-gathering activities".
Civil liberties advocates have frequently expressed concerns about whether the act allows the government to blur the lines between intelligence gathering and criminal prosecutions.
Rather this prosecution will chill the news-gathering process in a world where the public must rely for crucial information on the willingness of government officials to be forthcoming with reporters.
In addition to training health workers on rape treatment and supporting evidence-gathering for the prosecution of rape, International Medical Corps runs sensitization campaigns and helps establish female community leaders in DRC.
