Sexual Harassment Stories and Experiences

Sara  

     In high school, a pastor’s son became obsessed with having me all to himself and made sexual advances at me, which I rejected.

     He became angry and vowed “if I can’t have her, nobody will.”  His sister even helped trash my reputation by telling him and the entire school that I was a “sex crazed psycho.”

     Later, this pastor’s son forcibly tried to have sex with me at my locker!  I tried to dissuade him, begging him not to hurt me.  He threw me against my locker, covered my face with his hands so I couldn’t scream, and dug his nails into my arms, threatening bodily harm if I told anyone. As he preceded to tear my blouse open, I kneed him in the groin and fled, sobbing hysterically. My would-be rapist screamed “you little b****!”

     I immediately told school staff what happened.

     As I was preparing to press charges, I was called into the principal’s office and noticed the sinister siblings, grinning evilly. The prinicpal said that my attacker told her that I engaged in consenual sex with him at my locker, which was a complete lie.  I told the principal the truth–that I was almost raped by this boy, and that he said if I told anyone, he’d hurt me.

     Yet, thanks to my attacker’s sister, the principal believed his story over mine, and I was given a warning. My attacker’s sister then said if I told anyone, she’d have me arrested.

     I was a total outcast right up until graduation.

     I never got proper justice from this incident, and am still very angry at those sinister siblings for damaging my self-esteem, dragging my name through the mud, and taking everything I loved away from me. I wish I had followed through on pressing charges, because my would-be rapist would be in jail right now for false imprisonment, assault and battery, and assault with intent to rape. And his sister would’ve been charged with aggravated sexual assault, aiding and abetting a crime, and threat to commit a crime.  

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