Nina Funnell

Yeah, that night I went through the process of, you know, the photographs, swabs, all of that sort of stuff, making a police report and then getting referred to Raw North Shore Sexual Assault Service.

So that was, yeah, that was when I was 23 and, yeah, like it changed my life.

I talk about it now quite dispassionately probably because I've had sort of certain therapies and so on.

Yeah, yeah.

Firstly, I'm sorry that happened to you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No, I don't think I'd ever been inside a police station before that.

I had a challenging experience with the police in that I gave a description of the offender and they did what's called a comfit, which is like a sketch drawing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so they got me back in the station a few days later.

I was still, you know, in acute trauma.

And they got me to look through like these big binders of sex offenders who live in my area.

And I had no idea that there were that many sex offenders that live

Like that in and of itself was actually really quite overwhelming and traumatic.

So I'm flicking through these binders of these faces and they're essentially asking me, do you recognise the person?

And I didn't.

He wasn't in there.

But as I was doing that, there was a conversation happening behind me between a couple of guys and they were talking about how, oh, you know, the problem is, you know, these young women, they don't understand the risk out there and the risks that they're putting themselves in.