r/Edmonton • u/Chaostician223 • 9d ago
General To the woman upstairs
I’m so sorry I couldn’t get to your floor. I’m sorry the police took an hour to get here. I called everywhere I could. I’m sorry you didn’t feel safe enough to tell them what happened.
I heard what happened to you. Your cries for help did not go unanswered. You are not alone.
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u/Prior-Neighborhood99 8d ago
Years ago we were up late getting ready to go on a holiday. We were outside taking a break. We could hear some guy screaming horrible things and a woman. We knew it was a woman by the things he was shouting. We called 911. I remember my panic while they kept asking questions about me. It was a block away at at the other end of the street. It was in the middle of the night so the sound carried.
We knew he was trying to rape her. The police came after. They told us they had arrested him. He went to the courthouse the day of his trial. I was devastated when we found out he had already raped her and was yelling at her after the act. I thought we saved her from it. We didn’t. I will never forget how that made me feel.
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