Mature women drugged and assaulted tube

Updated July 06, If sexual assault was treated like any other crime, I might have gone to police that night covered in bruises and DNA evidence. Instead my silence has cost me dearly. Growing up, I was a gymnast.

Alaina was 18 in March of , a college freshman in the middle of spring break. She was visiting her friend at an Ivy League school for the weekend, bag packed with her favorite dress: a cotton rainbow halter that she had helped design. The following night, Alaina's friend hosted a party in her dorm. Other freshmen arrived early to get ready and put on makeup—"nerdy outcast" types, Alaina remembers of the tightknit group who were all acquainted with her host. Alcohol and Coca-Cola had been bought for mixing, but Alaina opted just for the Coke; she didn't feel like drinking that night. The party sprawled into two other adjacent dorm rooms, and suddenly Alaina felt her vision begin to blur.

At first, the smugglers had her cook for the other migrants who had recently crossed illegally into the United States. Then they took her to a room upstairs, locked the door and began taking turns with her. It was the summer of , and Melvin, a year-old mother of three, had just completed the journey from her native Guatemala, crossing the Rio Grande on a raft before being led to the house in the Texas border city of McAllen. For weeks in that locked room, the men she had paid to get her safely to the United States drugged her with pills and cocaine, refusing to let her out even to bathe. Even as women around the world are speaking out against sexual misconduct, migrant women on the border live in the shadows of the MeToo movement.

Select your country and county to help us locate your nearest support service. Rape includes penetration with his penis of the vagina, anus or mouth without consent. Whatever the circumstances, nobody has the right to force you to have sex or have sex with you without your consent.