They course-loaded people who have gone back with reports—mostly training development officers. I am not a training development officer. I was a public affairs officer by trade. We created this training with the idea of.... Again, what if being raped didn't have to cost you your career?
When I did my training in this, one of the cases that was obviously being dealt with at the time was the Weinstein scandal in the States. One thing that really hit home for me was this: When they interviewed two reporters from The New York Times, they said the real tragedy regarding people who prey on our young people isn't even the sexual assaults—as bad as they are. It's the fact that those people now feel they've lost their potential. It kills their dreams.
That's what it did for me. It took away my dream of university and everything else. What if it didn't have to cost that? What if we could work on the problem and, hopefully, get it down to be as minimal as we can? The ones we know are out there are better at hiding than we are at finding them. What if that didn't have to mean I'm going to have to hang up my uniform? What if I could be supported, as if I were injured in any other way? I could then return.
We don't have to lose these people. That's what we took it as. That's what we've been doing.
