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00:00 - Was there a point, like, with the investigation
00:03 where you felt like the police just--
00:05 you knew they weren't believing you, and...
00:07 - I was raped, and they told me I lied about it.
00:28 - I've been working on this story for four years.
00:31 I managed to gather more than 160 cases
00:34 where alleged victims of sexual assault
00:37 were turned into suspects.
00:39 - Filing a false report is a Class A misdemeanor
00:42 punishable up to one year in jail.
00:44 - The women had pled guilty.
00:46 There was sort of a knee-jerk sense,
00:48 "Well, they pled guilty. They admitted it.
00:50 There's no story here."
00:51 - But when I spoke to them, they maintained
00:53 that the assaults did happen.
00:56 - Was it wanted? Was it consensual? No.
00:59 - From the investigation,
01:00 you're not being honest with me, okay?
01:02 - With what I just told you? - Yes.
01:04 And I think you're one of those people
01:06 that's taken away from my true victims.
01:08 - It's only in the details that you start seeing
01:12 how a reporting victim becomes a suspect.
01:15 - They will turn to those interrogation tactics
01:17 that are designed to elicit confessions from suspects.
01:20 - How can you tell me that I'm lying to you
01:22 when there are no cameras?
01:24 - Getting the victim to retract their allegations
01:26 is such an important strategy
01:28 because they haven't actually investigated
01:30 the sexual assault thoroughly.
01:32 So the message that they send
01:34 to all the sexual assault survivors in their community
01:37 is that if the police don't believe you,
01:39 they might prosecute you.
01:41 - Once your name is in the press, it's everywhere.
01:43 'Cause you're no longer a sexual assault victim,
01:45 you do not have that right to privacy anymore.
01:48 These young women have no idea.
01:51 There is an institution of people
01:54 who allow it to happen.
01:56 - I was the one who said to her,
02:01 "Baby, you need to go to the cops.
02:03 You do everything that you're supposed to."
02:05 And things like that happen, you know?
02:07 Sometimes the justice system is not made for everybody.
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