I certainly never thought it would happen at work.
When it happened, I reported it. Immediately.
There was an investigation. The investigation did not include interviewing or even talking to me.
I was not believed. The person who did it did not confess, and I could not say with certainty who had done it because it happened while I was seizing. No one witnessed it because it happened so fast in such a chaotic atmosphere. So that was that.
And I became the problem. And the problem needed to be moved. So I was. And I feel completely iced out by so many I thought would back me up.
This is why people don't report.
It appears to be a burden to support those who are victimized. You don't want to get others in trouble. You certainly don't want to get yourself in trouble.
Believe victims of sexual assault. Stop protecting perpetrators.
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