The Revenge of an Assault Survivor

Amy Roost
11 min readNov 25, 2019

A true story as told to (and written by) Amy Roost for Estela Salazar.

Don José

I was 6 when Don José surprised me with some cookies and milk before bed. I got so sleepy. The next day I woke up all bloody, with a cut on my ankle. Mami and my sister Valery washed me and bandaged my wound. It was not only my ankle that hurt. Everywhere, my body was sore. My back. Between my legs…

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