I wish people would stop accusing posters of victim blaming
Commenting to a female who has been attacked that her behavoirs contributed to her attack is victim blaming. Eg Yeah, but that skirt you had on !
Commenting to a female that she shares responsibility with her attacker for his future victims is victim blaming. Eg You enable him by not reporting. You have a duty to report him so others don't get hurt. How will you feel if you don't report him, he gets away with this and he rapes somebody else ?
There have been many posts that resemble that mindset. Yet few takers for the questions that ErTutMirLeid posed.
The OP has very little chance of taking this man off the street. His injuries will possibly corroborate an attempt on his part to force entry. But they won't prove the intent to sexually assault or rape. Becuase he was unsuccessful. Her reporting will however stand a reasonably good chance of marking his card. So if another woman has reported/goes on to report him for a crime where she states there was a sexual element, the police are more aware that he is one to watch in terms of accusations of sex crimes. It is likely that one day he will be successful, if hasn't been already, and the day that woman walks in the police station the OP can metaphorically hold her hand, by upping the odds that the police have no doubt she is telling the truth and he is a big fat lying perverted scrote.
Women are not stupid. They will never in huge numbers become motivated to get over a very real hump to report if what they are being sold is blatantly untrue. We know there is a low conviction rate for sex crimes. We see the pitiful sentences. We know that sentence given and time served don't look the same. We know that even by reporting and helping secure a conviction that future victims can merely be delayed for a few years, rather than taken off the table.
Women don't deserve to be emotionally beaten over the head with a responsibility that is not theirs. Not after what they have been through. Not when it is inaccurate.
What is more accurate, more sellable, is offering metaphorical hand holding as an objective of reporting. That by playing a part in creating a paper trail that plagues a scrote, you can sit next to the next victim in spirit and play a role in helping to lessen her fear of not being believed, or being told she is making a mountain out of a molehill. Becuase his form, that you helped create, suggests her version of events is more believable than his.
If we can dump the "don't report and you are enabling a rapist to create more victims !" hammer and replace it with a "if you feel able, you can position yourself to provide "I'm telling the truth" support and lessen the awfulness for future victims" choice ....we might get somewhere in terms of increasing reporting. The idea that something you do now, no matter how little it does to deal with what was done to you, can in the future alleviate some of a future victim's distress is more accurate, tangible and can feel do-able. In a way that "You have to report to get this monster off the streets !" does not.
At some point we have to pick. Do we want to continue with a stratagy that as long ago as the 80s some police people were saying did not work in terms of motivating women to report crimes against their person ? Or do we want to reframe the benefits of reporting, so that they better reflect the more likely outcomes/gains of reporting and propose them as a genuine choice....that perhaps more women would feel is worth making?
I'm not guaranteeing it, but if more women felt there was a tangible, achievable benefit of reporting, perhaps reporting (over time) would rise to levels never previously seen.