Marissa

I think I had like a day to contest it because you only have 14 days and I hadn't been notified until the last day.

I found out that I wasn't legally supposed to be notified, which I just think is crazy.

Like if my perpetrator is

trying to get off of anything and I'm allowed to give a statement, I think that I should be notified.

And so I notified that I did not agree and I was able to go in in September and give a statement.

I had really gone back and forth about making a statement here.

I had just decided that he and I

had discussed this plea deal.

We had both agreed to this plea deal.

I feel like I have empathy for him in a lot of ways.

So again, it was hard for me to make this decision, but I think that it's good for the community as a whole.

There were a lot of people there that day for various reasons.

I stayed in a private room until it was my turn to go up and give my statement.

We actually got called first.

And so I went in and I went directly up to the podium.

It was the same podium that I had spoken at two years earlier.

This is the statement that I gave at his probation hearing.

This was September 16th, 2025.

This took place at the 3rd District Court in West Jordan, Utah.

And this is what I said.