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Name: | 'Caroline' |
Age: | 25 |
Year of the Fix: | 2016 |
Location: | West Midlands |
Campaign: | To break the silence surrounding sexual abuse. |
It was a few months after I split up with my long-term boyfriend that I realised he had raped me.
We were in a secure and loving relationship, and I thought we would be together forever.
However, he had sex with me repeatedly despite me telling him that I did not want to.
It didn’t occur to me at the time that this was sexual abuse, I thought it was normal.
It was only later when we had separated and I spoke to a counsellor, that I realsed that he had raped me.
I didn’t really tell anyone about what happened to me because there is so much stigma surrounding the subject.
My experience shows that there is no such thing as a ‘typical’ rape. I wasn’t attacked by a violent stranger in an alleyway, instead I was abused by the person I loved the most.
I decided to make a film with Fixers to help young people understand that sexual abuse can happen to anyone and to encourage people to speak out about it.
Fixers
Olivia G
Jo Quinn
Mason Latey
'Ben'
Ben Simms
Sam Barakat
Hannah Baker
Becky Thorn
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Chelsie Brown
Tilly and Bella
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Sam Womack
Becky
Fern Lulham
Shak & Natasha
Macauley Collinson
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Jack H
Timothy Cranfield
Hannah Carter