I want, first, to say to you I am SO sorry for what you went through...all those years ago AND continuing! I was, let’s call it molested, while babysitting some 30+ years ago...woke up on the living room couch to the Uncle of the kids I was babysitting having his way with me. I played off that I slept through the…

I have been thinking awhile about Your reply to my post, indeed, he is a man, it’s just that i’ve always been held to a higher standard by my close family and friends (be they male or female). And as such, behaviour like this, sometimes feels like a personal insult to my maleness (and thus makes my blood boil)...

You were not dumb. You were young and trusting. Such a shame that your trust in this world and piece of mind were stolen from you at such a young age. My heart breaks for you and all the young women out there who have had to experience such a tragedy as what you endured.

Fuck this Brock Turner guy.

You are a beautiful woman to admit to being raped. I am 62 and was raped at 18. At the time, we didn’t talk about being raped. We hid in the corners of the world and told ourselves, we deserved it. My heart is full of pride for you. I have to this day never spoken of it. Something in your post allowed me to talk to…

Yup. A gun and 10 minutes for mine. They never found him, and probably never will. I doubt he thinks of it at all or even remembers doing it, as it is something he probably does all the time. It’s such a shitty tradeoff to carry that trauma for the rest of our lives, isn’t it?

Rapists should be in prison for life. they destroyed a life, theirs should be forfeit.

I guess that time has made less angry, but it’s always under the surface. It was the self-serving comments about the time it took. No question about the victim, And we shrug it off. You can see what I thought of that I guess.

I’m so sorry for what happened to you; you are obviously a survivor and a good person.

Agreed. I was raped at the age of 6 by a stranger, it was probably less than fifteen minutes of activity that haunted me for many years, and a lot of expensive therapy. These parents, who think that simply because they don’t believe their child capable of this doesn’t negate the severity of their actions. F this POS…

I commend you for sharing this- I am sure it wasnt easy. Thank you!

My heart goes out to you. It gets better in time, but it never goes away. This is why we should NEVER be called “Rape SURVIVORS”. It diminishes what we went through, implying that we’ve recovered and everything is peachy and cool and we have moved on.

My wife fought off a man with the same intent many years ago. Everyone around her did nothing. Poor drunk bastard didn’t understand that her dad was a judo sensei. There is ..NO excuse for rape when every man has the ability to handle sex in 5 minutes. Thats what hands are for.

Right there with you. Of the group of men who spent my late childhood and early teens raping, and torturing me only one ever served time, and was then allowed back in to the same community. He served 5 years.

5 years. And I’ve spent the last 30 years barely holding myself together, I’m borderline agoraphobic, have…

What about his statement that his son has never been violent, ‘including that night’? Seems like a pretty twisted way to interpret the unassailable fact that his son was digitally penetrating an unconscious woman. Private letter to the judge or no, it shows that neither he nor his son appreciate the inherent violence…

Really? My daughter was caught bullying at school, and I was livid. She got in trouble with school, and then at home as well.

It made my brain freeze reading that. Everything was about his son. There was nothing about the woman his son victimized. He is just as awful as his son.

That’s all the son thinks he did wrong too. He blames binge drinking and sexual promiscuity. Wonder where he got that.

Every time I read a report about someone being beaten or choked, I think about how long two minutes is when I’m stirring cake batter or kneading bread. It’s always longer than I think it will be. To imagine a child being harmed for that long, or for someone to have to look into the face of an attacker, is so…

I was just thinking the same thing! What if someone stole his identity with a few keystrokes and voided his bank account in a matter of seconds? What if someone stalked around his house and took things of value in 15 minutes? What if a gun was fired and shot him in the head in a matter of seconds? 20 minutes can be…