DAY 23: ROBBED of INNOCENCE

“Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.”

---Freda Adler

“Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people, in God...The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed.”

---Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992

“Most commonly, rape is a crime of opportunity; the victim is chosen not because of her looks or behavior, but because she is there.”

---Helen Benedict, Virgin or Vamp, 1992