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Rose Kalemba
Last year Rose Kalemba wrote a post explaining how hard it had actually been – when she was raped as a 14- year-old girl – to get a video of the attack removed from a popular porn website. Dozens of individuals then contacted her to say that they were dealing with the same problem today.
CAUTION: This story talks about a violent sexual attack
The nurse stopped at the doorway leading out of Rose’s medical facility room and relied on face her.
” I’m sorry this took place to you,” she stated, her voice shaking. “My daughter was raped too.”
Rose looked at the nurse. She could not be older than 40, Rose believed, her daughter should be young, like me.
She reflected to the morning after the assault, to the discussions with the emotionless police officer and the clinical medical professional. Everybody had actually used the expression “declared” when referring to the violent, hours-long overnight attack that Rose had actually explained to them. With the exception of her dad and grandma, the majority of her family members hadn’t believed her either.
With the nurse it was various.
” She thought me,” Rose says.
It was a small crack of hope – someone identifying and acknowledging what had happened to her. A wave of relief cleaned over her, which felt like it could be the start of her recovery.
But soon hundreds of thousands of people would see the rape on their own and from those viewers she got no sympathy.
Taking care of her hair is one.
Sitting down to talk, Rose pulls her hair over her shoulders – it covers most of her body, her own armour.
Growing up in a small town in Ohio, it wasn’t unusual for Rose to go for a walk alone prior to bedtime.
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Rose as a kid, with toys and books.
At some point, one of the men got out a laptop and revealed Rose videos of attacks on other ladies.
” My daddy called the police, he right away comforted me, however the others stated I had asked for it by strolling out late at night,” Rose says.
At the healthcare facility, Rose was greeted by a male medical professional and male cops officer.
A couple of months later on, Rose was browsing MySpace when she found a number of people from her school sharing a link. She was tagged. Clicking it, Rose was directed to the pornography-sharing site, Pornhub. She felt a wave of nausea as she saw numerous videos of the attack on her.
” The titles of the videos were ‘teen sobbing and getting slapped around’, ‘teen getting ruined’, ‘lost consciousness teenager’. One had more than 400,000 views,” Rose states.
” The worst videos were the ones where I was lost consciousness. Seeing myself being attacked where I wasn’t even mindful was the worst.”
She made an immediate decisi