At Gettysburg, a small school with about 2,500 students, 95 rapes were
reported to campus security from 2013 to 2019 — but only 10 non-child
rape cases were prosecuted in the entire county during that period,
according to school data and county court records.
And that discourages students like Katayoun Amir-Aslani, who quietly
left Gettysburg after her own sexual assault in the spring of 2014, from
coming forward.
She met Keeler the night she was assaulted. Then few months later, she was raped at Gettysburg by an acquaintance, she said.
She did not file a report. She did not get a rape kit. Instead, she quietly left school after that spring.
“I didn’t have any witnesses, and after the experience I had … with
Shannon, and nothing happened with her, I just (thought), ‘Well, what’s
the point of me going through all of this for nothing?’” said the
26-year-old New Yorker. “So I just didn’t really tell anyone.’”
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