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Feb 7, 2019 · “I didn’t understand how gang rape was a ‘bad choice.’” — Brenda Tracy
- david.wharton@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Like many victims of sexual assault and rape, Brenda contemplated suicide; the rape and the failure of the system to support her sent her into a tailspin of depression and regret. Slowly and deliberately, however, Brenda built herself back up. After 16 years, Brenda finally began to regain her self-worth, end her silence and speak her truth.
Nov 14, 2014 · When she sat down for the medical examination as part of her rape kit at Salem Hospital, Brenda Tracy wondered how she'd kill herself. "I'd made up my mind that I was going to do it after I...
Oct 30, 2015 · Brenda Tracy. Oct 30, 2015. At first I couldn't say the following words without getting a lump in my throat and tears welling in my eyes. Today these jarring words roll off my tongue. "I was...
- Brenda Tracy
Jun 23, 2016 · Morning Mix. ‘I hated this man more than my rapists’: Woman confronts football coach 18 years after alleged gang rape. By Michael E. Miller. June 23, 2016 at 6:07 a.m. EDT. @webelieveyoubk. It's...
Jul 21, 2022 · “It made me feel like what I went through was not in vain.” In the last seven years, Tracy estimates she’s shared her story publicly more than 200 times. She's spoken at more than a hundred...
Nov 21, 2018 · “I live in this dark world of rape and sexual violence, 24/7,” Tracy said. But two decades after that night in Corvallis, she also said she wouldn’t take it back, as it has brought her to her current life and purpose.
