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I thought it could handle things on my own, but I couldn't
because I didn't know what I was dealing with.
I thought I was just dealing with, maybe,
some people that wouldn't take no for an answer,
and it was much, much more than that.
It was an escalation of abuse over time that continued
until it got me to the point where I was like,
"I don't want to be in the military anymore."
And then one day, someone said to me --
and there are some good people in the military
that I very much respect and appreciate.
This gentleman said to me, "Jennifer, what's wrong with you?
You went from loving the military to you don't care anymore."
And that's all it took, was that one person to say to me
"Something's wrong" and really care,
and I opened up to him because of it.
I opened up to him, and I told him what I'd been dealing with.
And he took it seriously, and he told me that if I didn't
report it to the commander, that he would have to.
And I cried and told him that I didn't want him
to tell the commander because I was afraid that I would
lose my career, but he had said he had to
because it was military law.
So, I went and told the commander about the four different men
that had, one raped me and three assaulted me,
physically on numerous occasions.