Kathy Thurstonreveals the traumatic incident to the world … telling followers that she was raped and that the justice system failed her.
“The Bachelorette” — who starred within the present’s seventeenth season — introduced the information Friday on Instagram, the place she shared components of her story together with an inventory of sources for different sexual assault and rape survivors.
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Thurston says she’s not prepared to enter specifics, however she does clarify that she known as 911 to report the incident … and the officer took her to a medical expert for sexual assault.
Katie says she felt like a “susceptible baby” in the course of the course of … and credit the nurse and lawyer for serving to her get examined.
Thurston says it took 4 months to course of the equipment…throughout which period she consulted a therapist and browse extra about speak to detectives after they had been wanting into her claims.
Ok.T. says she turned the whole lot over to investigators — textual content messages, cellphone information, DNA, movies and her personal physique — and but she says her quest for justice has in some way been stymied. She doesn’t specify what she means by this.
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The fact star says it isn’t simply her loss … it is “one other loss in a damaged system. Change comes from failure, and the justice system failed me. And continues to fail 1000’s day by day.”
She ends her put up with an uplifting message for followers … telling them that they’re appreciated, they’re sturdy – and most significantly, she believes in them.
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Katie completed Blake Moines on her season of The Bachelorette, although they broke up in 2021. Then she met John Hershey who additionally appeared on her season earlier than they cut up in 2022.
We have reached out to regulation enforcement in regards to the standing of the investigation… up to now we have not heard again.
