The time, date and location of a woman’s rape in Longueuil is raising some important questions about another Longueuil attack and subsequent murder of 23-year-old woman.

Carole Thomas is speaking out after her rape in October. She says police dismissed her claims she was violently attacked after getting off a bus in Longueuil.

No more than 24 hours later, Jenique Dalcourt was murdered less than two kilometres away. Though they made an arrest, police have not been able to charge anyone in the case.

Describing her own attack, Thomas says she did not expect to survive.

“He raped me. He was able to take off my pants and my underwear and he was very forceful and violent,” she said Wednesday, adding that the man was aggressive, pinning her down in a car along Rue du Parc Industriel.

After 20 to 30 unimaginable minutes, she said, he opened the back door of the car and threw her on the street.

Thomas went to police, then to the hospital for a rape kit.

She says questions by investigators in Longueuil did not make her feel safe.

“He was asking me some questions that I didn't find relevant and which made me extremely uncomfortable, like, ‘Can you tell me the size of the penis of your aggressor,’” she said. “I thought he was mocking me or something. I fought so hard not to break down and look like fool and people would laugh at me. I felt ridiculed and not taken seriously.”

Capt. Nancy Colagiacomo, a Longueuil police spokesperson said investigators sometimes need to ask tough questions such as these, but protocol was followed.

“We're taking about a sexual aggression. There are certain questions we need to address,” she said. “We are looking at this case.”

The Council on the Status of Women is now involved, and said the case makes a sad statement.

“She wanted to go the police to sketch this aggressor because she wanted to protect other women. She didn't want what happened to her, to happen to other women. So I was appalled, to be quite frank,” said Julie Miville-Duchene, president of the group.

“It says that mentalities still need to change. And that it's still not easy for women to be taken seriously by the police force when there is a sexual aggression,” she said.

Longueuil Mayor Caroline St-Hilaire issued a statement Wednesday, saying she is preoccupied by the case and is waiting for an explanation from Longueuil police.

“We're going to sift through everything,” said Colagiacomo. “We're going to look at the investigation from the beginning to today and if we do realize that there were mistakes made we're going to address them.”

Police say Dalcourt’s murder is not connected to the attack on Thomas, but Thomas is not so sure.

“He is still out there and he may have done this to someone else who didn't declare it – or who may not be alive and no one knows,” she said.