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14 May, 2014

Sulkowicz files police report

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Sulkowicz reports Nungesser to the police. This is the first public mention of Nungesser’s name. She says that she didn’t want to report her attack to the police because she was embarrassed and ashamed of what had happened to her.

When it first happened, I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I didn’t even tell my parents. … I didn’t even want to talk to my best friend….I realized that if I didn’t report him he’d continue to attack women on this campus. I had to do it for those other women. I understand if it’s too late, but I really hope he does [get charged].

Sulkowicz says she felt badly mistreated by the officers who came to her residence to take her statement. Because she and Nungesser had had consensual sex twice before he allegedly assaulted her, Sulkowicz said the police were dismissive of what she had to say.

There’s a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that’s because they’re treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty but survivors are guilty until proven innocent, at least in the eyes of the police. [The officer] emphasized certain things, like the fact that I had consented earlier on in the night. And I said, ‘Yeah, but then he [Nungesser] started strangling me and I definitely didn’t consent to that’.

She says that the officer who had taken her statement dismissed her account to friends who had accompanied her to a follow-up interview at the station:

They told me he said stuff like, ‘Of all of these cases, 90 percent are bullshit, so I don’t believe your friend for a second.

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TeLin特林

What’s scary are the many people who would rather people NOT be assumed innocent until proven guilty. You have to PROVE…that doesn’t mean the accuser is guilty.

“The rapists are innocent until proven guilty but survivors are guilty until proven innocent”

Jack_Kennedy

says the professional victim …………

TeLin特林

Bahaha I’m a professional victim, righhhttt. That’s why I’m for following the court of law instead of public outrage.

amanda doe

Emma is a sad, pitiful creature. Her vicious lies and desire to be in the trendy feminist victim hood club are just attention grabbing gimmicks. It’s the ‘notice me daddy’ syndrome.