M.C. v. Bulgaria

A 14-year-old Bulgarian girl, M.C. (petitioner), was invited by acquaintances to a disco bar and reservoir, where one man forced her to have intercourse in a car and, hours later, another forced her to have intercourse at a house, in both instances without her physical resistance because she felt frightened and powerless rather than because she consented. She and her mother went straight to a hospital, but Bulgarian investigators, focused on the absence of physical resistance, found insufficient evidence of compulsion and terminated the criminal proceedings after M.C.'s appeals to domestic authorities failed. M.C. brought a complaint against Bulgaria under the European Convention on Human Rights.