Reuben Williams

At first I thought, this is a dream, this isn't happening to you right now.

And I, like, start regaining consciousness, and I realize, like, you are in a dangerous situation right now.

You're not safe.

Holy shit, you've just been sexually assaulted.

I thought if it gets back to me that he's done this to somebody else and traumatized them for the rest of their life and you, Reuben, could have stopped him in his tracks, you're probably going to feel 10 times worse than you do right now.

And so that's when I thought I'm going to make a statement.

The hardest part of that was dad.

You mean telling dad?

Telling dad, yeah.

I get in my car, start driving.

I make it about 100 meters down the road.

or if I have to pull over because I'm crying so hard I can't see.

When you dismiss the believability of victims, you dismiss your own son.

I was really worried about a few key things like what would it be like seeing my perpetrator for the first time?

What would it be like being in a courtroom for the first time?

And so I wrote a letter to myself.

Have you got the letter on you?

Yeah, I've got it here.

Okay.

Thank you.