Anger.

Sucks, Beaubri. I used to feel better about sleeping being wrapped in blankets like a taquito. I hope you’ll be able to sleep when he’s gone or you can go somewhere.

@nepheliad: There is only so much the police are able to do.
In the justice system they rely on that thing called ‘proof’. And unless you’re a child or go get examined right after it happened, you have little chance of forming a lasting case unless the pervert confesses, which rarely happens. There are cases that manage to go to trial that get dismissed because of that lack of proof, so it’s more prevalent to not ‘waste resources’ on a case that can’t go anywhere. By rights she should have had a full case, but it’s complicated further by her mother being an ostrich about the whole thing. While there’s technically a statute of limitations on when someone assaulted can report a crime with a chance of the allegations sticking, sadly it’s usually more a case of “He said, she said” and it doesn’t pan out well. Which is admittedly fucked up.
Mind you, this is from my admittedly limited understanding of how things work.

@Niil: Plenty of people love rapists and pedos. In my experience, when someone you love is accused of this shit, the response of the person being told is to deny, and deny hard. You know and love this person! How could they possibly do something like this? It must be a lie. (not everyone is like that, but it’s mostly what I’ve personally seen.) Though there was a woman I know who after being told her boyfriend was a repeat offender, accepted the fact that he did do it and still loved him and slept with him anyway. Which was especially nuts to me because she was assaulted by her brother when she was younger and can’t stand being around him.

And of course there’s that bullshit cultural practice of child brides. Pedophilia promoted on a mass scale.