Meshel Laurie

I mean, you've been raped in your own home by a stranger.

Yeah.

Surely that's your mind sort of trying to protect you.

Oh my God.

And also, had you told anyone up there?

No.

Yeah, so you're sort of living a life like pretending it never happened sort of thing?

So then how did that feel that, well, great, you've caught him, but now I have to kind of...

bring it back into my life.

yeah because it's got to feel like it could become part of your identity yeah i think it does for a lot of people yeah yeah um i'm just thinking i've met a lot of people over the years either victims or families of who have moved away started a new life not told anyone yeah and they told me in the beginning um because it was stranger because of what happened my chances of working full-time and being successful would be really low so

You're such a farm girl.

Like, take a lot of time to do what?

Think about it.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't want to do that.

Because then I was like, okay, now I need to process.

Yeah.

So then this is pre-COVID.

And the reason I say that is because now it feels like our court times are still so much longer because of the backlog from COVID and all that sort of stuff.

So how long did it take from that day to get to trial?