The Ripple Effect of Rape

 Today, my guest is Jess Munson, an ER nurse with 20 years of medical experience who specializes in sexual assault. In addition, she is certified in Somatic Healing. She is also the mother of five children. “I have an incredible relationship with my parents and had no abuse growing up.”

Jess’s Life Growing Up

Growing up in a small town of 1000, Jess knew many of the kids in town and has memories of playing outside in the creek with her friends. “I grew up with an amazing family, and my parents are still happily married after 35 years.” The third oldest of seven, her parents adopted three children from Russia when Jess was 15 years old. “Chaos is a norm for me in some way. I’m used to the crazy.”

“When I graduated high school, I came up to attend Salt Lake Community College.” She worked as a security officer for a local business. At the time, her roommate wanted to go on a date with a new guy and didn’t want to go by herself, so she asked Jess to come along with her on the date.

When they were hanging out, Jess told the guy that she had a boyfriend. They went to a movie, and everything was fine. Then, they went for a walk in a nearby park and were sitting at a picnic table when he forced her down on the top of the table. She told him to stop several times, and he backed off.

A friend of Jess’s warned her not to hang out with this guy as she felt like he couldn’t be trusted. A week went by, and her roommate asked her to hang out with this guy again, and that is when he had the opportunity to rape her.

Reporting her Sexual Assault

She drove the assailant to his house four hours later. Jess had many emotions flooding through her mind and body. She was worried about what her boyfriend would think and was worried that people would think less because she let this happen.

Jess went back home and scrubbed her body in the shower and washed her sheets in hot water, erasing much of the evidence that was left behind. When her roommate found out what happened, she called the police, and Jess filed a report.

Find out how Jess moved on in life, what happened when she married three years after her assault, how she endured emotional abuse in her marriage for 11 years, and how this experience affected every aspect of Jess’s life.

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