#WhyIDidntReport

Women have been tweeting from their own personal experience about why victims of sexual assault either do not report at all or report only years later. You can read the tweets at #WhyIDidntReport. This is a situation similar to what happens with child sex abuse - victims often don't report what happened or don't report for many years. I told my mom when I had been abused as a kid. She didn't believe me. The guy went unpunished. The next time it happened with someone else, I didn't bother telling my mother until I was an adult. She didn't believe me again.

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