Unconscious Intoxicated Woman

Buzzfeed published Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker. It’s tough to read and unimaginable to think about reading this in front of your attacker.

I was not only told that I was assaulted, I was told that because I couldn’t remember, I technically could not prove it was unwanted. And that distorted me, damaged me, almost broke me. It is the saddest type of confusion to be told I was assaulted and nearly raped, blatantly out in the open, but we don’t know if it counts as assault yet. I had to fight for an entire year to make it clear that there was something wrong with this situation.