Posted on 01/27/2026 4:48:01 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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There in that hotel, a little over four years ago, I was raped by a group of men during a three-day trip I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. Of the rape, which lasted all night, I remember both too much and too little. I never did anything about it. I didn’t tell anyone who could have done something about it, either, such as the hotel staff or the Las Vegas police. I never considered taking any kind of action at the time, but ever since the possibility has haunted me as a particularly cruel version of a path not taken. And although in my mind, the hotel phone remains permanently available to my call, that isn’t true either—and in more ways than one.
With the passage of time comes the passing of statutory deadlines. There’s no room in the law for my personal combination of indecision, confusion, and avoidance. Put differently, the legal frameworks we have for processing crimes often conflict with our emotional and affective responses to those crimes. But the passing of the statutes of limitations for pressing criminal charges against those men has forced me to confront the reasons why I never pursued legal action against them in the first place, although it hasn’t yet allowed me to accept that I never will. To me, there will always be a phone in a Las Vegas hotel waiting for my call.
The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me, even when they have hurt me more than I could have ever believed possible.
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“I never considered taking any kind of action at the time,”
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Sounds like it wasn’t rape then.
apparently she would rather the perps (IF there really are attackers) be free to keep hurting other women- Real nice lady she is! /S
Definitely has mental illness issues.
Has she now declared open season on herself?
If you didn’t report it, I don’t believe it.
Maybe she just felt bad about it after it was all over, and comforts herself by calling it rape, when she didn’t actually say no, or resist, or anything like that.
I wonder if she knows any of the guys, perhaps having “dated” them before or since.
All I can say is., Sick, you need help.
Maybe it wasn’t rape rape.
I couldn’t keep reading the words. Where were her “best friends”? I agree, it sounds like a phony article, probably ginned up and meant to feed the “woe is us” readership.
At best, she needs to be locked up for her own safety.
A certain person who I was once romantically involved with decided to participate in a swinger party.
After I found out, sge claimed “rape”.
But the... evidence was that she willingly participated and actively sought it out.
This unfortunately colors how I perceive stories like the authors.
I always thought your stories were fake until...
Because you don’t give a $hit about other potential victims of this rapist. You’re an enabler of a rapist.
With Ted Bundy, she wouldn’t have got a chance to report her rape.
Repeal the 19th retroactively.
I like the way you think.
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Now THAT’S a cheap date.
This is SOP marxist boilerplate. Saw the exact same thing in the 1960s. The celebrities and usual suspects adopted the Black Panther gang as their pets, but gang members aren’t always ready for polite society. They ignored the inevitable rapes and murders.
Because it doesn’t fit the Narrative. The issue is never the issue, the issue is the Revolution. Consequently they will ignore anything that makes them “look bad”. They have a death wish, no amount of carnage is “too much”.
You never reported because it never happened. You’d get in big trouble filing a fake report.
The problem is that a rape case will invariably be almost impossible to successfully prosecute without the cooperation of the victim. There typically aren’t other witnesses and the forensic evidence is only found on or inside the victim’s body. It’s difficult to imagine a prosecutor being able to convict a rapist if the victim refuses to cooperate
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