Powerful first person article about being a survivor
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teenage-sexual-assault-kavanaugh_us_5ba3b77fe4b069d5f9d0c7ee
…t’s the Brock Turner effect, the reverence for the sanctity of the perpetrator’s future, his great promise. There are many problems with this line of reasoning, but the one that sticks in my craw, as the survivor of a sexual assault as a teenager, is the way it ignores my pain, my stolen promise…So when pundits ask, “Must a sexual assault when he was a teenager follow him around for his whole life?” Remember: Christine Blasey Ford didn’t get a choice.
edited to change my quote