Sexual Assault is unacceptable.

Rape. Any man can rape any woman. Doesn't matter if you're even married. If you don't want to have sex you can say no. If you call up a man and tell him to come over and while he's on the way decide to say no, you can still say no. Anyway, my point is. I was sexually assaulted by a man who has also sexually assaulted two other females I know personally and apparently several others I know nothing about. For the sake of privacy I will use these names for the people in my explanation of what happened in "My side of the Story" Jack - The assaulter Jill - The assaulter's sister Mary and Jane- assaulter's sister's friends My side of the Story: I was friends with Jack, Jill, Mary and Jane. Jack and Jill invited us all over for a Christmas party in December of 2007. I remember stopping by the store on the way there to pick up some candy for the party. After I go the candy I went to the party. We were all having fun in the basement playing video games. We played Mario Party and a few other fun party games. Then Jill, Mary and Jane said they were going to go upstairs and make some cupcakes. I was still playing Mario Kart, so I said I would be up in a minute to help them. Jack was playing Mario Kart with me on the other side of the couch. As soon as the 3 girls went upstairs, Jack started scooting closer to me on the couch. I kept moving away, he took that is being playful and flirty. I paused the game because I was getting pretty disturbed. He started trying to rub his balding head on my leg, at that point I moved as far as I could which was the arm of the couch. He was about to start touching my inner thigh with his hand when the 3 girls came bombarding back down the stairs and which point he jumped back and acted like nothing happened. I went upstairs with the girls that came down to get me, I went upstairs for a while and ate some cupcakes when they were finished. At the end of the night I went back downstairs to get my hoodie because it was about time for me to leave, I was 17 after all and had to be home by 11. I quickly grabbed my hoodie that was on the coffee table. As I was about halfway up the stairs I noticed Jack was following me, I kept walking towards the front door. By the time I had opened it to exit he had caught up to me. He followed me onto the front porch. He said "Wait I need to give you a hug goodbye" I said "No! I need to get home." He then proceeded to wrap his arms around me from behind (I was 5'3" and 135 lbs, he was at least 6 feet tall and weighed at least 250 I'm sure.) He put his scruffy chin on my head and started moving his hands towards the button of my jeans. I told him to stop and that I really had to go and I started walking forward as hard as I could to get out of his grasp. He then attempted to put his hand down the front of my pants. Thankfully I was wearing a belt and he couldn't really get far, at this point I balled my hand into a fist and punched him right in the crotch. He flinched from the pain and that was my chance to escape. I ran to my van and went home as fast as possible. When I made it home I called my best friend at the time and told her about what happened. The next day my friend went tot he local game store where Jack was hanging out and asked him why he raped me. (During my explanation of the story I never used rape and I said everything I said here) I see a incoming call from him. I ignored it of course because I didn't want to talk to him. Of course "1 new voicemail" comes up. I listen to him getting all grumpy that I told my friend about it and that "we needed to talk". So being the stupid 17 yr old that I am I went there to tell him off. I told him I told my best friend because I was very shaken up over what happened and that's generally what people do. After this goes on for a few minutes I just get completely disgusted and leave because he wants me to apologize to him for what he did to me. That's my story. That how I was sexually assaulted. Should I have called the cops? Probably. I was 17 years old, embarrassed about it honestly, I was a virgin at the time. If I called the cops that would have got my parents involved and what 17 yr old wants that? I was still in high school. I didn't know how to handle situations like that. I told him no and he kept going. I was in no way physically or emotionally attracted to him, I liked his sister as a friend more anyway. Just because I'm nice to someone doesn't mean I want to sleep with them.