Responded to the ER for a female who was in getting a PERK - physical evidence recovery kit. It’s very invasive: plucking, swabbing, photos, etc. When I got there, she was a 20ish female in a room with her husband. In my most empathetic manner, I explained we’d have to go over everything in detail and maybe she didn’t want her husband there. Well, she did. So, we go through everything step by step in great detail. She tells me how she has an argument with her husband, goes to her ex boyfriend’s house and has consensual sex with him. I’m very confused. I ask the husband to step out.
I say,”I must be missing something, because you have not described a rape to me. You are describing two people willingly having sex.”
She says, “That’s right, I was never raped.”
I asked, “ Why did you get a PERK? That’s for rape and sexual assault.”
She responded, “I was assaulted. The next morning we got in an argument and he punched me in the face.”
This poor girl just sat there front of her husband and described in the smallest detail her affair. And what’s more, she endured an awfully uncomfortable procedure, which occurred nowhere near her face.
I assume that someone got confused when she checked in, telling them about having sex and getting assaulted, and listed it as a sexual assault.
To this day I wonder if she thinks that’s the SOP for everyone that’s been punched.