I cannot believe how little of a priority assaults are to law enforcement.
I have had to fight tooth and nail just to get justice.
Justice for being sexually and physically assaulted.
It's just unbelievable to me.
How something that has such a profound effect on the victim, is just pretty much ignored by judges, police chiefs, and county attorneys.
My advocate told me that most cases are dropped after 48 hrs of not knowing where the perpetrator is.
Are you kidding me!
When I learned this it made me so angry. The fact that somebody can destroy someones life, and have it treated as if it's nothing.
No wonder people continue to rape people; they know there won't be a consiquence.
In our day and age, I just cannot believe this.
Crimes against women are treated as second class crimes.
How is that even possible?
1/14/19
1/12/19
Bittersweet
With it being over a year now since I was assaulted (assaulted somehow softens the blow, rather then saying raped.) I find myself moving on.
It has been a road that I never thought I would face. Yet I did, and the number of other victims is enormous.
The day I was assaulted it was like a light switched off, and my whole world darkened, literally and figuratively.
My eyes darkened, and I was dying inside. I couldn't stop crying, I was suffering from PTSD, I was having crazy, very dark dreams. I lost a piece of myself that day. I literally felt a piece of me leave. I can't explain it, only someone who has been traumatized in that way can even begin to grasp the totality of what I'm saying.
It made it worse that I knew this person, and they posed as a friend.
So I had that betrayal to deal with as well.
No human being should have to suffer in that way.
I can not even begin to fathom what a child goes through after being sexually assaulted (raped.)
Because I barely was able to deal with it as an adult.
It has been a road that I never thought I would face. Yet I did, and the number of other victims is enormous.
The day I was assaulted it was like a light switched off, and my whole world darkened, literally and figuratively.
My eyes darkened, and I was dying inside. I couldn't stop crying, I was suffering from PTSD, I was having crazy, very dark dreams. I lost a piece of myself that day. I literally felt a piece of me leave. I can't explain it, only someone who has been traumatized in that way can even begin to grasp the totality of what I'm saying.
It made it worse that I knew this person, and they posed as a friend.
So I had that betrayal to deal with as well.
No human being should have to suffer in that way.
I can not even begin to fathom what a child goes through after being sexually assaulted (raped.)
Because I barely was able to deal with it as an adult.
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