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So it wasn't until the 31st of May, so I believe that was a Wednesday, that I went in to the hospital by myself where they took my insurance and I said, I'd like to request a rape kit, please.

So they had to call a sexual assault nurse examiner or SANE nurse.

This was a more metropolitan hospital.

city that Western University was located in.

So it didn't take too long.

But they do outsource that at this hospital and I think all the hospitals in the area.

At that time, they had to call the police to take a police report so that there was a case number to go along with the rape kit.

I gave my statement to the police first and then went through with the rape kit.

It was a female cop from my recollection who seemed deeply disinterested in everything I had to say, very flat affect, did not want to be there.

But I was kind of too sad to care or read into that too much.

She did let me know that if I wanted to open up a criminal investigation, once I opened that box, I couldn't close the lid.

which kind of scared me and deterred me from that option, to be honest, because my family lived in a different state.

I didn't feel like I had the support and I didn't want the police digging through every aspect of my life.

And I thought that past assault with the photographer, I was worried about being believed and I was worried about that hurting my credibility because that assault was very hard to prove.

She gave me her card and then she left.

Then the same nurse came in after the police officer left.

We had to go through a questionnaire about what happened.

And you have that documentation.

It's just like a series of questions.

One that stood out to me is, did your perpetrator bathe you, wash you, clean you with anything?