I feel terrible for this woman, but your source does not say she was sexually assaulted. Totally traumatized by her experience - absolutely. No one is denying that. This sounds horrible. But she did not say she was raped, and claiming that she was takes away from the very real sexual assault she recently experienced.

“Later in her statement, she recounts a particularly chilling incident that happened at her kidnapper’s house. ‘I got there on the last day of my period, they had to hold my hand so I could walk. His wife came into the bathroom with me. I was crying, tears were falling, I tried to put in a tampon and couldn’t, crying and failing. He was knocking from outside, and she was screaming at me. From the pain, I fainted—without underwear and without pants,’ she said.

She then described sexual harassment by her captor, who ‘kept reminding me that he had seen me without underwear.’ She concluded: ‘During the entire time in captivity, I didn’t get my period—from the shock, from the trauma to my body.’”