I can add some thoughts.
Generally we're seeing that youth have had many encounters with police already up until that point...before the exploitation. That's sort of where this disconnect happens. It's based on their previous experiences.
I think that if service providers and law enforcement could work together more effectively, then we wouldn't be retraumatizing the victim by having them tell their story six or seven times—whether it's a police officer, the hospital or this person or that person. I know that in Ottawa the officers go in plain clothes. They don't make the victim come to the police station. They can meet them in the community and try to bridge the gap in that way.
Thank you.