Allegra

When did you initially meet Justin?

We matched on Tinder the spring of 2017.

I don't even remember his Tinder profile, but I think I thought he was handsome.

We ended up connecting on Instagram as well and following one another and then doing some DMs.

There was a chapter of his legacy fraternity at Western University.

And so he was in the process of trying to join that chapter.

Wow.

Legacy means that your father, grandfather, brother, in the case of a fraternity, were in this Greek organization, which isn't something that's widely used anymore due to the DE&I initiatives that we've implemented in Greek life, which I think is a good thing.

But at that time, legacy was very important to us.

I was planning on staying for the summer.

So I was looking for friends and other people in the different communities that I was a part of, like Greek life, for example, who would be around in the summer and making some new friendships or continuing with my old friendships, just having a good social dynamic set up for myself for the summer.

My experience was that if someone was a part of a fraternity, I felt like they were vetted to some degree.

Which, looking back on it now, that makes no sense.

Because it's not like they were getting a background check or anything like that.

If you portray yourself to be a certain way and have a couple beers with the guys and they think you're cool, then you're in.

From what I recall, it was weird that he was a student athlete at his first university and then transferred to Western where he stopped being a student athlete before the spring semester had even ended is when we just had a couple messages back and forth.

The messaging was very brief, and maybe a few months prior to when I actually met him, that, you know, finals and other things I was preoccupied with, he just kind of slipped my mind.

Fast forward to the end of May, which is when my assault took place.

The only time I ever met him in person was the night that he raped me, which is so crazy to say.

Can you walk us through that night?