It's been a hard week. Friday news came out about ground penetrating radar being used to confirm that 215 children's bodies were dumped in an unmarked graveyard at the Kamloops IRS.
Sad fucking shit but worse still, that night my niece was raped.
It's been difficult dealing with her sexual assault because of the distance, she's in Regina, and I'm far from her in Vancouver. And there's already some difficulty in communicating with her. We mostly use messenger, with the odd audio message back and forth - no actual calls or facetime. It's made figuring out what actually happened to her very difficult. I feel frustrated that she hasn't gone to the police, her story seems to change too. Did she tell the cops about the sexual assault and they ignored it, as she last said, or did she not say anything because she was embarrassed and afraid of the man who raped her? She initially said she asked them not to charge him, but that could have been the assault, not the rape? He beat her up so she wouldn't tell his girlfriend is what she said too. Her leg is in a cast. Tonight she said that she told the cops and they did nothing because her rapist is a white boy. Um he looks like an NDN to me, but whatever. Joe right away said that we should call them. Cops asked if we were making a complaint. Uhn Yeah, but we want to know what happened - FOI act, can be requested in writing but ongoing investigations only the victim can be told info. Ugh.
Damn right I'll make a complaint. I just don't know what the fuck happened. She might not either. There's a good chance she was roofied. Told her we could do a group call to support her in contacting the cops, but it sooo doesn't seem like that's something she wants to do.
I'm so mad and sad and just fucking fed up with the whole situation. I don't know how to help her get through this. I don't know what will help her deal.
I BEAT UP MY RAPIST from Katrina Saville on Vimeo.
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