My Question of the Day for 15 March 2010 – UPDATED
My Question of the Day: You were the victim of a viciously, savage attack, which you survived. All of your physical scars healed and are no longer visible, but the emotional scars continued to control your life. The police devoted many hours trying to bring your attacker to justice, but the heartless predator wasn’t caught.
In an effort to move on with your life, you went through intensive and extensive therapy, clung to loved ones who gave you overwhelming support and encouragement, and you got your life back after a few years of hard work and dedication. Little by little, you put the entire event behind you, and now you’re leading the best life you could possibly imagine.
20 years after the event, a detective knocks on your door and says the police department has new evidence and there’s a better-than-good chance that they can bring your attacker to justice. The detective tells you that some of the paperwork from your original statement was ruined in a storage room fire, and he/she needs you to recount the entire experience in order for the police department to proceed.
What do you do?
My 2 Cents: I help the investigation in any way I can, even though I’m sure it will be hard to allow those wounds to be re-opened.
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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:
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JoshDamage I give the statement without a moments pause.
Teaguem2005 If I’ve truly healed from the hurt, I can honestly tell them what happened in a semi-detached way. May b hard but wld do it
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I thought I answered this one yesterday. I guess it was a problem somewhere with my computer. UGGHHH Fail. If I was truly over this incident and therapy had worked I should be able to answer the detectives questions. If I still had issues with this and couldnt answer I would definitely consult my father who is excellent at rationalizing without emotion. Usually his advice is the best way to go for me. He has never shown me wrong yet. But I would try to help out and save someone else.
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LikeDislikeI found out my mother went through this very thing when I was over her house and a private investigator came to the door. She went ahead and went through with helping, but she regretted it after it was over. The guy who raped, beat and cut her up wasn't convicted for her crome but they got him for someone else he killed. She said she felt like she had been attacked all over again with the same reuslts.
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LikeDislikehm. i don't know. don't you want the person to pay that did that to you? i would want them to pay.
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LikeDislikeI'd definitely recount it. I believe in justice and I would want this person to get a taste of some.
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LikeDislikeWow! That would probably be a really tough decision…probably depending on how much “over it” I am. I would like to think that if I were in that position, I'd want to give as much information/help as I could. But, I just can't be sure without having been in that position. Perhaps, it would be an easier decision to make if I could be sure that the perpertrator would be caught and punished accordingly without fail. But, again, without being in that position, I'm just not sure I know what I'd do. It sounds simple, but as the one who says they've been in this position can probably say, it wasn't as simple or easy as we'd like to think.
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LikeDislikeThanks for sharing your experience.
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LikeDislikeThanks for sharing your experience.
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LikeDislikeThanks for sharing your experience.
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LikeDislikeThanks for sharing your experience.
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LikeDislikeI know this is supposed to be just made up to get us to think, but this happened to me. I decided not to go back to that time in my life. That might sound selfish but it took everything I had to get my life back and I didn't want to relive that. You can say you would help but you dont know until you go through it. My attacker murdered someone after he raped and beat me. I'm sorry for her family but I have to put me first.
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LikeDislikeI know this is supposed to be just made up to get us to think, but this happened to me. I decided not to go back to that time in my life. That might sound selfish but it took everything I had to get my life back and I didn't want to relive that. You can say you would help but you dont know until you go through it. My attacker murdered someone after he raped and beat me. I'm sorry for her family but I have to put me first.
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LikeDislikeI do it! I know reliving the experience can be hurtful but it's the only way for some justice to be served.
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LikeDislikeI make the statement. I'm sure my anxieties aren't completely purged but the perpetrator must be brought to justice. Having this person behind bars will bring some final closure to such a heinous act.
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LikeDislikeI would do everything I can to help prevent someone else from going through what I went through. I think that would be an extremely simple and quick decision.
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LikeDislikeI would do everything I can to help prevent someone else from going through what I went through. I think that would be an extremely simple and quick decision.
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LikeDislikeI would do everything I can to help prevent someone else from going through what I went through. I think that would be an extremely simple and quick decision.
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LikeDislikeI'm healed, I do it! To make sure that sorry excuse for a human hurts no one else. Vengeance belongs to the L-rd. But the responsibility to help another is mine.
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LikeDislikeI'm healed, I do it! To make sure that sorry excuse for a human hurts no one else. Vengeance belongs to the L-rd. But the responsibility to help another is mine.
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LikeDislikeI'm healed, I do it! To make sure that sorry excuse for a human hurts no one else. Vengeance belongs to the L-rd. But the responsibility to help another is mine.
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LikeDislikeI agree with the previous posts, the circle must be completed. Victims of violence perpetuate the cycle if they don't use an opportunity to serve justice to the perpetrator.
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LikeDislikeI grab a pen/pencil and write down as much as I can remember. If this person had such a negative effect on my life, I want them locked up where they can't touch anyone else. To ignore the fact that they're still out there would be irresponsible.
Of course, if I've really rehabilitated my self, doing so will have minor and temporary effects on my current sanity and wonderful life.
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LikeDislikeI grab a pen/pencil and write down as much as I can remember. If this person had such a negative effect on my life, I want them locked up where they can't touch anyone else. To ignore the fact that they're still out there would be irresponsible.
Of course, if I've really rehabilitated my self, doing so will have minor and temporary effects on my current sanity and wonderful life.
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LikeDislikeI grab a pen/pencil and write down as much as I can remember. If this person had such a negative effect on my life, I want them locked up where they can't touch anyone else. To ignore the fact that they're still out there would be irresponsible.
Of course, if I've really rehabilitated my self, doing so will have minor and temporary effects on my current sanity and wonderful life.
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LikeDislikeI grab a pen/pencil and write down as much as I can remember. If this person had such a negative effect on my life, I want them locked up where they can't touch anyone else. To ignore the fact that they're still out there would be irresponsible.
Of course, if I've really rehabilitated my self, doing so will have minor and temporary effects on my current sanity and wonderful life.
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LikeDislikeI grab a pen/pencil and write down as much as I can remember. If this person had such a negative effect on my life, I want them locked up where they can't touch anyone else. To ignore the fact that they're still out there would be irresponsible.
Of course, if I've really rehabilitated my self, doing so will have minor and temporary effects on my current sanity and wonderful life.
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