If I were to be sexually assaulted again, I’m not sure I’d go to the police

Angela

It’s now one year and nine days since the last “alleged assault”. In four days I go back to court after a four month adjournment. I’m still technically “under oath”.

The last twelve months have been spent trying to recover from this awful thing. On Friday they rip the bandaid off again.

I don’t think I would ever advise anyone to go to the police after this.

And that is the saddest part of the whole thing.

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Published by Angela

Writer, Speaker, Thinker Current research areas are: narrative, surveillance and autobiographical writing. Research interests include race, gender, politics and power.

2 Comments

    1. The police have actually been great but it’s the justice system that had been so hard. It feels designed to retraumatise you as much as possible.

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