Marissa

I have been so moved by that all these years later.

And it wasn't until later the victim advocate came and she told me that the state actually does pay for rape kits.

And that's something that I really want every victim to know that you are not responsible for a rape kit.

After that, the police showed up and they do an initial intake.

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.