The Monday and Tuesday after the verdict was delivered, the National Sexual Assault Hotline experienced a 23% increase in call volume.
in the mid-1990s, and there was an 6% bump after Bill Cosby's 2018 sexual assault conviction.
"People who are full of shame don’t have the self-confidence to report," she said."They have a very strong belief it was their fault already and then they have a belief they’re going to be blamed." "The way it is framed for a jury and the general public is still really missing a lot of that context," she said."Until we as a society really come to terms with how broken the system is, I think it will continue to be a system with barriers for victims and survivors."
Survivors cannot count on delayed reports being taken seriously. Miriam"Mimi" Haleyi , 42, accused Weinstein of forcing oral sex on her in his New York apartment in July 2006, and Jessica Mann, 34, accused Weinstein of raping her in a New York hotel room in March 2013.
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