Marissa
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They do their first report.
And so I'm repeating everything that I remember, trying to tell them all these things, which is just so traumatizing.
It's not even a day later.
And they said, do you want to press charges?
And I said, I'm not sure yet.
I need to really think about this.
They said, well, the process is after this, a detective will contact you and you can move forward with pressing charges or you can close the case.
There were a few reasons why I felt hesitant.
One being, yeah, that he was an athlete.
Two being that he was adopted into a pretty affluential family here in Utah.
And I knew that once I went through with this, that there was obviously going to be a lot of rumors swirling.
And I think then when someone is in a position of being a student athlete, there's even more
input from people that don't even know you or know him or know the situation.
So I was pretty worried about that.
And obviously you hear about how hard going through the justice system process is.
And I was so naive to the process, but I still knew it would be hard.
And I knew that most likely I wouldn't be believed.
I just think it's important to say that