Stanford Rape Case: Date rape victim ostracised for speaking out

In 1990, an 18-year-old Katie Koestner was raped in her dorm room on the College of William and Mary campus in Virginia, USA.

Stanford Rape Case: Date rape victim ostracised for speaking out

She was the first victim to speak out publicly and it was from her case that the term ‘date rape” was coined.

Katie had been out for dinner with her rapist in a nice restaurant. Afterwards, they went to her bedroom. She had planned on remaining a virgin until she married and when her assailant tried to have sex with her, she repeatedly said no.

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