Her campaign with the student newspaper is called "Not Guilty"
An Oxford student who was sexually assaulted by a teen after leaving a tube station in London on April 11 has written a letter to her assaulter that has been shared extensively on Twitter and on Facebook.
In a student newspaper, Ione Wells, who decided not to remain anonymous, writes , "I don't know who the people in your life are. I don't know anything about you. But I do know this: you did not just attack me that night. I am a daughter, I am a friend, I am a girlfriend, I am a pupil, I am a cousin, I am a niece, I am a neighbour, I am the employee who served everyone down the road coffee in the café under the railway. All the people who form those relations to me make up my community, and you assaulted every single one of them. You violated the truth that I will never cease to fight for, and which all of those people represent - that there are infinitely more good people in the world than bad."
Ione Wells, 20, explains her decision in her piece titled "A Letter to My Assaulter" - "My community will not feel we are unsafe walking back home after dark. We will get on the last tube home, and we will walk up our streets alone, because we will not ingrain or submit to the idea that we are putting ourselves in danger in doing so. We will continue to come together, like an army, when any member of our community is threatened, and this is a fight you will not win."
Her campaign with the student newspaper is called "Not Guilty" and asks people to share their experience about assault and "victim-blaming."
The letter explains that her assaulter was caught on CCTV and then arrested after he was seen following another woman a few minutes later. "When you dragged me by my hair, and when you smashed my head against the pavement and told me to stop screaming for help. ....When you tore my bra in half from the sheer force with which you grabbed my breast," she recalls in the powerful note that was published on April 24.
According to a Guardian article , students are contacting the University newspaper, offering to write about their ordeal.
Read Ione Wells' entire letter here:
In a student newspaper, Ione Wells, who decided not to remain anonymous, writes , "I don't know who the people in your life are. I don't know anything about you. But I do know this: you did not just attack me that night. I am a daughter, I am a friend, I am a girlfriend, I am a pupil, I am a cousin, I am a niece, I am a neighbour, I am the employee who served everyone down the road coffee in the café under the railway. All the people who form those relations to me make up my community, and you assaulted every single one of them. You violated the truth that I will never cease to fight for, and which all of those people represent - that there are infinitely more good people in the world than bad."
Ione Wells, 20, explains her decision in her piece titled "A Letter to My Assaulter" - "My community will not feel we are unsafe walking back home after dark. We will get on the last tube home, and we will walk up our streets alone, because we will not ingrain or submit to the idea that we are putting ourselves in danger in doing so. We will continue to come together, like an army, when any member of our community is threatened, and this is a fight you will not win."
Her campaign with the student newspaper is called "Not Guilty" and asks people to share their experience about assault and "victim-blaming."
The letter explains that her assaulter was caught on CCTV and then arrested after he was seen following another woman a few minutes later. "When you dragged me by my hair, and when you smashed my head against the pavement and told me to stop screaming for help. ....When you tore my bra in half from the sheer force with which you grabbed my breast," she recalls in the powerful note that was published on April 24.
According to a Guardian article , students are contacting the University newspaper, offering to write about their ordeal.
Read Ione Wells' entire letter here:
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