Huffingtonpost has a pretty intense front page for Sunday
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
#BeenRapedNeverReported: Powerful Stories And Conversation 'He was my grandfather. I was 3-9 yo. Cops wanted to know why I waited so long to report it.'
'I took a man to court and the crown attorney asked me, why he's very handsome, I'd do him.'
'My mother called me a whore, yet my father sexually assaulted me...'
'After the attack, he texts me the next day "sorry about yesterday, you shouldn't look so good. Still friends?"'
'He was my first boyfriend, I didn't know I was allowed to say anything.'
'As a kid molested at age 6, took me years to admit to myself it happened. My attacker died by then...'
'#BeenRapedNeverReported because I was in elementary school and scared.'
'A 6y/o believes it when a monster says "if you tell anyone you’ll be taken away from your family."'
'At age 15. My parents would have blamed me. Wasn't talked about then, either.'
'I almost deleted this. Scared to admit. He convinced me it was my fault.'
'Even if it's your husband doing it, which happened to me.'
'We were out drinking together 1 night. He said he did it to prove that he could - a warning 4 me not to drink so much.'
'I was 15. He was 33. I was accused of lying to ruin his career. I reported. He walks until ANOTHER victim reports.'
'Praying my daughter won't have to deal with what I had to...'
'Because when the adults in your life don't believe you, how would you ever believe the police would?'
'The counsellor had said it was his way of showing he cared & suggested I confront (w/out safety).'
'I am one of the many. Twice in college.'
'Went to my church. Was told husbands can't rape their wives.'
'Some don't report bc they are worried about him being harmed in jail.'
'Was drinking and too terrified to fight back.'
'Bc I was ostracized when people began hearing I said it was rape and not a hookup.'
'I was 15 & gang raped by 5 men. Didn't report because it was 1968 & I would have been the one put on trial.'
'It was in college the whole consent thing was the issue. It could have been worse.'
'The first question the police asked was, "what were you wearing?" I was 10.'
'Shame. Guilt. As a young child, I couldn't explain to anyone; not even my mother...'
'Repeat after me: my clothes do not give consent.'
'I told my boyfriend and he called me a whore. Broke up with me.'
'Never reported, in fact I lied to protect him out of fear. Don't judge rape frequency by official report numbers.'
'Because sex workers are never protected.'
'Our high school bathrooms had graffiti that called him a rapist. I wrote some of those.'
'I knew him most of my high school years. He chose to about 10 minutes after I got the call my grandfather passed.'
'Because after being roofied, I had no evidence and couldn't prove that it was him.'
'Because he told me he loved me. I didn't know a dad loved his first grader that way.'
'By the time I processed what happened the statute of limitations ran out. Found out my attackers had raped 6 others.'
'Because he told me not to.'
'I was 15, he was my friend's father. No one would have believed me.'
'Locked in a bedroom n raped while mostly unconscious by two 'friends,' deemed a slut/home-wrecker.'
'Once I considered calling a hotline, imagined what I would say. Couldn't make myself say anything at all. No words.'
'Many women never ever report a rape for many reasons. Shame being the reason I didn't.'
'He said I was too sexy, he couldn't control himself around me. I didn't know about date rape.'
'I was a teen, there are reasons for age/consent laws, I had no idea that he was abusing me until I got pregnant.'
'I was underage, stoned, and had said yes before.'
'Because the rapist was "too good of a person to ever do that!"'
'Thought I was being a bad girlfriend the first time. Only way to make him leave the second.'
'Multiple times as a kid, teen, 20 something.'
'Because we had been friends.. I trusted him to not cross my boundaries...'
'Several times...Glad people are talking.Tired of living under the shadow of what should be someone else's shame.'
'Drunk, 17 and scared.'
'Because he was my fiance, and I thought it was my fault.'
'I had no control over what they did to my body. I had every bit of control over protecting my mental health after.'
'On the night of my 16th birthday he threw me to the ground. That was not the first time, nor was it the last.'
'1970: My friend's friend from out of town 'forgot his wallet' in his hotel room, it will only take a minute.'
#BEENRAPEDNEVERREPORTED
