Mis-sent file victim being investigated

An article from the Sunday Star Times by Lois Cairns

A sexual abuse victim who claimed to have obtained internal ACC memos calling her a "mental health nutter" who should consider suicide is under police investigation.
The woman's computer equipment and documentation relating to her battle with ACC have been seized as part of the investigation, which saw six police officers search her Eastern Bay of Plenty home.
The officers gave the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, no explanation of what they were looking for, although the search warrant said police had "reasonable grounds" to believe they would find evidence of forgery.
The woman believes ACC sparked the investigation because it was fed up with her persistent battling of the system, and was angry she made public the story of her patient file being sent to a local store.
The file, managed by ACC's sensitive claims unit, contained an estimated 250 pages of psychological reports and case notes.
"They want to shut me up. They want to turn me from a victim into a perpetrator so that they can get rid of me," the woman told the Sunday Star-Times. "They're sick of hearing from me and this is their bully-boy way of trying to make me go away."
The misdirected patient file was the latest in a line of problems the woman, who suffered sexual abuse in the 1980s, has experienced with ACC. In April the Star-Times revealed details of internal ACC emails labelling her a "mental health nutter" who should consider taking her own life.
ACC said then it believed the emails were fakes and was considering laying a complaint with police. The woman is adamant they were leaked to her.
A spokeswoman confirmed that Whakatane police had executed a search warrant in relation to a complaint from "an external party" about a potential fraud. A computer and some paperwork were removed from the property.
ACC said it could not comment.

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