🛑 CONTENT WARNING:
This post contains detailed discussion of sexual assault and the emotional trauma of survivors. It includes direct quotes related to the assault that may be distressing. Reader discretion is advised.
By Tina Winterlik // Zipolita
Those words should have stopped everything.
“You know you’re raping me, don’t you?”
That’s what E.M. testified she said—in the moment—crying out in fear and confusion during the assault.
Not afterward. Not as reflection. During.
Instead of pausing, checking in, or stepping away—they kept going.
And when the evidence was brought to court, they were still acquitted.
🧠 That Was Never Consent — It Was a Cry for Help
Anyone who’s ever felt powerless in a room knows this: saying that isn’t resignation.
It’s an attempt to wake someone. To reach one remnant of humanity.
It’s not permission—it’s an alarm.
If hearing that didn’t make them stop, nothing ever would.
⚖️ And Yet the Court Said “Not Guilty”
- She testified she was raped.
- She spoke those words while it was happening.
- She gave testimony in court, raw and painful.
- The judge still ruled her testimony “not credible” or “unreliable.”
Even that plea — clear, terrifying, vulnerable — was ignored.
That is not justice.
😡 What Message Is This Sending?
To men:
You can film a frightened woman, ignore her pleas, and still walk free.
To women:
You can speak up. You can fight. You can cry out.
And society might still say you made it up.
🔥 We Must Refuse Acceptance
If that sentence doesn’t move people—if that plea in real time doesn’t result in conviction—then something is deeply rotten.
Right here, right now, we draw a line:
- We will never normalize this behaviour.
- We will never forgive silence in the face of violence.
- We will protect those who cannot protect themselves
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