Padma Lakshmi: I Was Raped at 16 and I Kept Silent

[brooklynite]

New York Times:

When I was 16 years old, I started dating a guy I met at the Puente Hills Mall in a Los Angeles suburb. I worked there after school at the accessories counter at Robinsons-May. He worked at a high-end men’s store. He would come in wearing a gray silk suit and flirt with me. He was in college, and I thought he was charming and handsome. He was 23.

When we went out, he would park the car and come in and sit on our couch and talk to my mother. He never brought me home late on a school night. We were intimate to a point, but he knew that I was a virgin and that I was unsure of when I would be ready to have sex.

On New Year’s Eve, just a few months after we first started dating, he raped me.

[busterbrown]

1. What can one say..But

Rot in Hell to the piece of crap that did this.!

[bobbieinok]

2. Her report in NYT has already been added to her Wikipedia entry.

The entry emphasizes that she published this in the context of the Kav hearing.

[Phentex]

3. I cried after reading this...

when she told her mother about an incident WHEN SHE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD, they sent her away. Think about that. They sent HER away.

And people wonder why some women don't speak up.