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Tell workers around you what's happened. Letting someone else know about an assault can be good immediate debriefing and can get you started on the road to healing. Let workers in other places know about the perpetrator through the Ugly Mugs program at RhED. RhED takes the reports about clients who are violent (physically or sexually), uncooperative about using condoms or are dangerous. RhED sends the reports to other sex workers and to the police. The police do pay attention to Ugly Mugs reports, particularly to track serial rapists. The best reports include any distinguishing characteristics of the client, car or other details. Anything at all that will make someone else notice that this is the person who did this to you!
and you think?okay, do I pull out and drop that charge because I'm moving on with my life and I don't want to go backwards? I don't want to go back there again? I'd say to anyone who's thinking about whether to go to the police or not: 'They're going to do it to someone else if you don't do something about it'.
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