I figured I would still have drugs in my system, they had rendered me helpless so I'd treat it as a date rape. I could say I met some guys who invited me to a party and didn't remember anything after that. They would see the bruising on my legs, and there was other evidence of what he did to me.

I walked as far as I could along the creek before I went up the opposite site, into a residential neighborhood. The blood loss was getting worse, I was lightheaded and stumbling along the road when a woman screamed.

"Billy! Dial 911!" A middle aged woman rushed across the...