Marissa

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.

in and of itself.

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.

Utah is small.

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