Sarah Kopp

And yeah, just him over-sexualizing me, like asking me to get into my pajamas, what I slept in.

Then at the time, I just used to wear this daggy crop top and sat in boxer shorts.

And that's kind of when he stood me back.

And was looking at me just with such like lust and the way he sort of stepped back, sort of like I was on show and just looked at me for such a long time.

And I just felt so vulnerable, so exposed.

I'd never had a boy my age look at me like that before.

It just, I was so scared and just, yeah, just an awful situation.

And such a, you know, imbalance of experience.

Yeah, he was always very insistent that we don't have like vaginal intercourse until I was 16 because that's against the law.

But yeah, we were certainly doing everything else at that point up until.

And that was, I think, why, you know, turning 16 was such a big deal to me because it sort of signified, I guess, being able to be in a proper adult relationship and

He ended up getting transferred to a school in Brisbane.

I think it was the June, July holidays of when I was in year 11.

And he was very much in my ear about moving to Brisbane as well.

He actually told me that he had connections with the teachers of QDSC, which was like a full-time dance program at a high school in Brisbane, which, you know, for me, I wanted to do dance as a career.

And he said that he'd be able to get me into that program.

So I really got in my head.

I didn't even talk to mum.

I didn't talk to anyone about it.

But I just, for me, I was like, yep, I'm going to do this.