The article in the Maclean’s magazine by Anne Kingston “Shacked and abandoned”, describes that two more female sexual assault complainants were jailed in Edmonton to ensure their testimony at trial. The second women was forced to spend a sleepless night at the remand Centre while seven months pregnant, she was spared proximity to attacker as he was out on bail. She was forced to travel in a prisoner transport van with a man later convicted of brutally stabbing, beating, choking and sexually assaulting her. Alberta’s Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley ordered an investigation. However, it’s a discussion of the insidious way ways social class and status intersect with sexual violence in Edmonton courtroom. Though sexual violence knows no class