Thank you for sharing my links @Gingerbreadtreethe more who complain the better. I’m done with woman and girls being treated like this.
I hope you don’t mind. I’m adding the words of the strong and brave girls here also:
The victim impact statements described profound and ongoing trauma experienced by both girls after the assaults.
The 15-year-old victim said the attack had destroyed her sense of safety and badly affected her mental health. In a poem included with her statement, she expressed feelings of despair, emotional numbness, and suicidal thoughts. She described living with fear and the lasting psychological impact of being assaulted while others laughed and filmed it.
The 14-year-old victim said she felt emotionally disconnected after the assault and struggled to trust or relate to people around her. She described feeling numb, withdrawn, and permanently changed by what happened.