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00:00It was just like, wow, I'm getting attention, like it's my type of person that I would probably

00:24go for.

00:25Someone thinks I'm special.

00:26I don't think any of these things about myself.

00:28So the fact that someone feels that way about me, it just made me feel like this is where

00:33I need to be.

00:34His behaviour was always very dodgy, like he was a very reclusive person and he didn't

00:37really speak that much.

00:38And when he did, you could tell that he was weird.

00:40Something was off about him, like being annoyed but at the same time having to support her

00:43during this situation.

00:44It was quite, it was quite hard.

00:47The process in having to report the abuse that I experienced happened on the day when

00:55my neighbour had called the police.

00:57I think for me the biggest shift is seeing that light bulb moment where the young girl

01:05realises that actually something may have happened that's not okay and being able to

01:10have a conversation.

01:12I think that there are certain narratives that we're fed and certain lines that we're

01:16sold around what men are supposed to be.

01:19So we're meant to be emotionally in control, we're meant to be stoic, we're meant to be

01:24dominant, we're meant to be in charge, we're meant to be protectors, we're meant to be

01:27providers.

01:28And some of those things aren't bad, but I think some of those things become easily corrupted

01:34and can turn into violence and manipulation and abuse.

01:38Phone, now, Marshall.

01:39If I can't have my phone then neither can you.

01:40Are you mad?

01:41I didn't ask for no chat.

01:42Everything in my body was saying this situation isn't right.

01:43From when I'm seeing, you know, young women naked being dragged back into a house, that's

01:57when there's something going on there.

02:00I'm glad that I did call the police.

02:02Hello, police.

02:03What's the emergency?

02:04Have you sent someone over there?

02:05You think you're magic?

02:06Have you sent someone over there?

02:09You think you're magic?