A South African lady who identifies as @_simplyenny has shared via the microblogging platform X, why she doesn’t consume alcohol.
Before she started narrating the story, she revealed that she was raped by a guy whom she was familiar with in their neighborhood.
She continued by saying he had moved to her table when he saw her sitting alone in a public place and they had several drinks together.
When she had informed him that she was leaving, he proposed to drive her home in his car, which she agreed to.
During the ride, he told her that they would stop by his home first because he wanted to pick something up.
On reaching his house, he invited her in which she wished she had declined, and offered her more drinks.
Just as she told him she wanted to go home, he got up, locked the door, took the keys away, and violated her.
After the incident she felt ashamed and couldn’t tell anybody about it, she however felt infuriated when she saw him at her workplace the next day.
She wrote;
“Until a week later when he showed up at my workplace with his buddies. I was livid They started laughing and one of his buddies gave him a fistbump like I was just another girl on his “hitlist” I left work crying and went straight to my brother and told him everything. I asked him to take to the police station to open a case and he said no. No one would believe me coz there was no evidence. I felt helpless, hopeless He asked me to show him where the guy lived, I thought he was gonna confront him and rough him up a bit, but he didn’t do anything. Until the 31st of December that year, we had a New Year’s Eve braai at home and my brother wasn’t there. We thought maybe he left with his friends to celebrate New Year’s somewhere else. 12 o’clock came, we lit fireworks and gave each other hugs. He came back later and gave me a long hug. Like he was squeezing the life out of me. He looked different, he wasn’t smiling as usual or celebrating. The following day we heard that my rapist was shot and he died.”
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