Sarah Kopp

And, you know, it was...

early morning, you know, training for triple jump and things like that.

Cause you know, I had, I showed a lot of athletic potential back then.

And I think she felt so grateful that there was someone that saw the potential in me and was happy to support me and invest that time into me succeeding.

The first time, I guess, that the sexual contact had really escalated.

We were home alone in my house without the threat of anyone coming in or interrupting us.

So I never anticipated in that moment that things were going to get to that place.

I just honestly thought he was coming over to hang out with me.

And, you know, I had music on and I thought we were going to have just fun time and chat and things like that.

And I remember, I think I went to turn the music off or down on the stereo and he came up behind me and just started kissing me on the back of my neck.

And I just, I froze.

I absolutely froze and I had no idea what to do.

And it was from that point, like that moment,

I just, I feel so disconnected from myself.

Like when I look back at the memory of that, it's so, it's sort of fragmented.

Thinking about it, I feel that instant sort of scared, um,

And I think I just tried to dissociate and I just didn't, you know, I have explained it before where I feel I felt like a bit of a robot and he was sort of maneuvering me because I had no clue what to do.

I didn't know what was expected of me and I had no idea.

Yeah, I just, I wasn't a willing participant, I suppose.

And it just, it went on from there.