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In reply to the discussion: About girls and women not telling after they're attacked [View all]honeylady
(157 posts)When I was 15, my best friend and her brother kenney lived 2 houses up the street. I had stars in my eyes for this very cute brother of my friend. One day he said to meet him in his room. I was very naive and didn't understand sex at all. I'm now 69, so things were different back then. I said okay and went into his room. He walks in with an erection and a towel draped over it. I was so naive I couldn't understand how he could hide such a thing in his pants. He then proceeded to attempt to rape me. I fought him off and fled the house. I did not tell anyone what he had done.
A couple of weeks later, I was at their house visiting my friend when he beat the crap out of me. I ran home and again didn't tell anyone what happened. I was so ashamed.
A week or so later, we were on the school bus going to school. He sees me sitting in the seat. Proceeds to pick me up and throw me on the floor. I was mad and told the principal that he threw me on the floor. That day we get off the school bus and he then proceeds to beat me right in front of all the kids on the bus and the bus driver. I was bloody and crying and ran home. My mother was there and demanded to know what happened. i told her. Well she was furious and went to his parents and said if he ever touched me again, she would call the police.
Well he never did. He just destroyed my reputation at school. I forgot to mention that he was the most popular boy in school and the captain of the football team. So I lost all of my friends and was forced to leave that school and go to another one.
This whole Brett Kavanaugh thing has brought up all of this for me. If he was in the same position as Brett K. is, I would absolutely feel that I would need to let my Senator know what he did. But I would never give my name publicly as I was a bit of a wild child in my 20's and would be afraid of my character totally destroyed.
I understand why women don't come forward with these things, especially when they are young like I was.