When people have been victimized, we too often forget that they have to get through a trial. In a sens, it is as much their trial as it is their assailant's. In my case, I was lucky enough that the persons who did attack me were caught and trialed. It is often not the case.
I had to take the stand and, in a sens, I had to justify to the court that I was a victim and not a participant in what happened to me. My whole life has been scrutinized, I was portraied as, basically, a b* who got just what she deserved by the defense attorneys.
I know that this happens a lot in cases involving rape and sexual harrassment. I have been warned, before I went to testify, that this would be hard on me. I was not prepared for the cruelty of what was said about me. In retrospective, I think that the trial was even harder on me than the attack itself, including all the efforts I had to make to come back to life...
The two guys were very ingenious when it came of finding ways to lure me into their claws. I will tell you here all I learned during and before the trial; the tricks they used, the goal they were pursuing, their motivations for doing it all. I am telling you; if these two had worked as hard toward a noble goal, they would be heroes today...
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