You hear of people being assaulted but you always think it won't happen to you. You wouldn't put yourself in that sort of a situation. They must have done something that caused the assault, led the man on, dressed provocatively, been at the wrong place at the wrong time.

We tend to have a subconscious tendency to blame the victim. After all, it wouldn't happen to us, now would it?

It turned out that it would, and in circumstances that I still find a bit shocking.

I started babysitting when I was sixteen and have been doing it for nearly four years. Even when I wasn't of legal age I...