It's very scary to have something taken from you. It's really made me more aware of my surroundings and just be safe because you never know, it's scary.
I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene, she said. I felt sheer terror, the woman recalled. I realized at that point... I had nowhere to go.
"Most of the assaults I have experienced were carried out by men I had known for years, who I had been alone with numerous times: my uncle, my college professor, my doctor. They didn't assault me, I said, until they did."