Here’s Why The Cowardly Victim-Blaming of Sexual Assault Survivors Must End

Rachel Thompson
7 min readOct 13, 2021

Expecting victims of crime to prove their innocence is shameful. Let’s discuss.

I recently read a piece here on Medium by a writer who blamed Epstein child-trafficking victim, Virginia Giuffre, née Roberts, for being a victim of child trafficking. The basic premise of her piece is that, at seventeen years old, ‘she should have known…

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Rachel Thompson

Author, 8 books. Writer: Start It Up, Writing Coop, Better Humans. Childhood sexual assault survivor/advocate. Book Marketer http://BadRedheadMedia.com