In Support of Time in Sexual Assault Cases

Jacqueline Coleman
3 min readSep 18, 2018

There has been a lot of chatter back and forth on this topic, so I felt the urge to chime in — not about a specific situation, necessarily, but about the issue in general.

I have a problem when people claim the passage of time is an indicator that a sexual assault victim is not credible or is simply using her victimization as a weapon. Poll any three women and ask them if they have ever…

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Jacqueline Coleman

Wine Columnist at Biscayne Times & Contributing Writer for others. Storyteller. Copywriter for Hire. Former Prison Creative Writing Instructor. Oenophile.