With all the rape/assault conversations going on I thought I’d share something that has always REALLY bothered me. I have a good 50 plus witnesses to a man who reached up my skirt at ORLANDO while I was dressed as Slave Leia for Star Wars celebration V.
I was in the hotel entrance chatting with friends before going to bed after a magical disney/star wars will day. Maybe it was 1am? The man attempted to insert fingers into both holes. Besides the shock and horror….it was VERY painful. He was wasted holding his car keys, so they ripped up my inner thighs and really hurt my crotch. Amazing Star Wars fans came to my rescue and beat the shit out of the guy. We called 911. Anytime he attempted to get up. He was kicked, tossed down, etc. The amazing valet decided to bring the man a car! He then crashed said car into the middle of the roundabout at the hotel…stumbled out of the car….and came at me again! This time, cosplayers beat the man nearly unconscious. It took 2 hours for Orlando police to decide to show up. When they did, they had paramedics check me on the sidewalk…I had waited for the valiant police till the wee hours of the night. They informed me I could not press sexual assault charges unless I planned on flying out, paying for my own plane tix, hotel etc to testify. I KNEW I couldn’t afford that. My friends Jordan and Eliot were still with me…having waited hours as well…and heard these Cops talk me into just letting them book the man for being drunk. I couldn’t understand why it would cost ME thousands of dollars to have this scumbag locked up. I begged for them to take the report and all the witnesses with me to prove it. Not to mention, paramedics tending to my cut up thighs…o did not let them investigate any higher…My friends and new friends (random badass star wars nerds that helped subdue the guy after he assaulted me) all told the police they’d give statements on what the man did to me.
Exhausted..humiliated…and just plain tired as fuck.. I watched my friends talk to the cops as statements…and listened to the cops continue to assure me that I’d have to pay to fly back to FL to testify. Later, the press reported the incident. The police were not aware I was anyone that anybody would care about. They thought they’d not have to do more paperwork and go get a donut, I suppose.
The Orlando police LIED. They said they never met me.. that they never spoke to any one else. They claimed the only arrested a drunk man.
Again, I have to this day…at LEAST 50 people who will attest they saw this. Another 15 people stayed till the cops actually came. I know for sure my friends Eliot and Jordan have statements to the police. I WAS IGNORED. I was told I was a liar and made up a magical story..
And people wonder why we don’t report! The two times I have…I was told not to press charges… by the police! That I’d never win….that it would cost me far too much money to follow through….and then they publicly announce I am full of shit and they never met me!!!
This article reports that I Live tweeted the entire ordeal
This article shows Orlando Police claim they never even saw me!!!!
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Jesus fucking christ Florida sucks… I lived here now almost 3 years and HATE it… I’m sorry it happened to you and all the other people in the world it’s a disgusting world we live in… love you girl
Absolutely horrific! What a terrifying ordeal. So sorry that happened to you!
I’m sickened that humans sink to such despicable levels of existence ( The pervert and the police).
Just makes me nauseous that we live in a world where that behavior happens and unfortunately quite often.
It happens. I have a good friend, Mike, who worked sci-fi conventions with me here in Orlando. We worked security, specifically escorting/bodyguarding the celebrity guests around to make sure they aren’t bothered or harmed by the fans.
Anyway, during one particular convention, Mike had been assigned to escort a certain A-list female celebrity from a *VERY* popular science fiction franchise. During the second night of the convention, the celebrity in question decided to hit the bar, spent a couple of hours there, and then walked away from it so drunk she was slurring her words and couldn’t walk straight. Mike called up head of security, who told Mike to take Ms. Famous back to her room to sleep it off.
Mike did so, but somewhere in the middle of the trip up to her room, Ms. Famous decided that what she really wanted was to get laid, and her chosen bed partner was going to be Mike. Mike, though, is and was happily married, and the idea of cheating on his wife would never in the world occur to him, ever.
Later, after he’d walked Ms. Famous to her bedroom and handed her over to a personal assistant, Mike complained about how she grabbed his dick no less than six times on the walk up to her room, and ambush-kissed him at least once, and how he wanted to call the cops on her. Unfortunately, the people who ran the convention didn’t want to burn bridges with Ms. Famous, her agent, or her friends (the other celebrities from her big-name franchise), so he was talked down and nothing was done about it.
Mike never worked one of our conventions again. Even today, he remains angry at the people who refused to support him twenty years ago, when this happened. And word is that Mike is not the only man that Ms. Famous has sexually assaulted over the years. But nothing has ever been done about it. Not one thing. Everyone who works conventions knows that she’s a rapist, but no one ever says anything.
Why?
Because her victims are men, and because she’s a huge celebrity from a classic science fiction franchise, and because everybody knows no man would ever refuse sex with a hot celebrity, right?
It needs to be said.
#MenToo
I hate that this happened to you. I hate that it happens to anyone. I am very glad there were some good people on hand to give the guy a little punishment, at least. Maybe it’s not too late to sue the police there? (My ex sued a police department, once upon a time, for a similar thing, and won — in another country, but still.)
It would be an opportunity to bring more of this shit into the light and hit them where it hurts — their wallets and their political offices.
I was assaulted in my home and dared to call the police. He stayed and didn’t know I was able to call 911. When the police came, they did the typical divide and conquer. His story was believed and the cops were immediately convincing me to ‘let it go’ and avoid pressing charges. Fuck the police. I demanded charges. Followed it through to a trial where the county then failed me and botched a complete investigation. No one ever told me the police would treat me like garbage. No one told me I would have to write the city, police lieutenant, mayor and news outlets to get my perpetrators guns taken away, even though he was sitting on felony charges. No one ever told me I would be continually re-victimised for the next year. No one told me I would be ripped apart on the stand while recounting my horrific event in front of my assailant. All because I dared to tell.
May I ask, why your friend felt the need to continue to get his dick grabbed? Why didn’t he just ditch the loser drunk? I have never been afraid to speak out against things, is he frightened to step up and is that swauyed by a comic book convention? I know I certainly would have. No “job” or “duty” would make me believe continuously having my vagina grabbed was ok and to continue doing said job. No offense, but sometimes I get upset when people run their agenda on my platform. This was NOT you. you are telling a story of another man. It simply isn’t credible because you are not the one it happened to. How about you leave your friends victim hood to him and let him talk about it. I would be very angry if people told MY story around
all i see is an unhappy time where I would have to go to florida (cant afford it) and spend my money fighting the law
I understand because I have been in a similar situation. My incident was not as intrusive as yours (I can’t even imagine that..I’m so sorry that happened to you) but I had a similar encounter both with the police and then in the courtroom. I had to call the officer’s superior just to get them to charge the man and when it finally went to court I was treated like a common liar on the stand. What that man not only put me , my two children and my fiance through because of what he did to me. And I was reduced to nothing of any great importance in the eyes of the law and the justice system. I am sorry you to to experience this feeling as well. It sucks.
Florida is one of those “shithole countries” Trump mentioned a while back. Lol
Seriously though, I am so sorry for what happened to you, but also so glad that there were those there to defend you. I hope he remembers enough of his well-deserved beating that he doesn’t do it again, to anyone. I won’t hold my breath.
You are strong, you are badass, you are inspiring and NONE OF THAT has to do with being a (now former, I guess) celebrity.