Status Updates From Run Towards the Danger: Con...

“So many of us who have been sexually assaulted know that remembering the truth, knowing the truth, and telling the truth about it is anything but simple.
How extraordinary to think that the rest is the world may be beginning to know that too.”

“true that the adversarial nature of our legal system and constitutional protections such as the right to full and fair cross-examination mean that testifying as a complainant in a sexual assault trial will likely always be psychologically challenging and unpleasant. The criminal justice system is not designed to heal those who have survived sexual harm. But nor should it operate to affect a ‘second rape.’”

“…quoting a woman who after a year-long trial that resulted in the conviction of her attacker, said, “The bulk of my rape trauma is not a result of the sexual assault itself but of the brutality of the legal system. This trauma is difficult to understand for those who have not lived it.””