The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want | Jessica Ladd

Translator: Blanca Viñas Caneda Reviewer: Alicia Ferreiro

Hannah is excited to be going to college.

Hannah está contenta por ir á universidade.

She couldn't wait to get out of her parents' house,

Espera impaciente deixar a casa dos seus pais,

to prove to them that she's an adult,

para demostrarlles que é adulta,

and to prove to her new friends that she belongs.

e para demostrarlles aos seus novos amigos que pertence ao seu grupo.

She heads to a campus party

Vai a unha festa no campus,

where she sees a guy that she has a crush on.

onde coñece un rapaz polo que se apaixona.

Let's call him Mike.

Chamémoslle Mike.

The next day, Hannah wakes up with a pounding headache.

Ao día seguinte, Hannah esperta cunha forte dor de cabeza.

She can only remember the night in flashes.

Só logra recordar imaxes soltas da noite.

But what she does remember is

Mais lémbrase de devolver no corredor,

throwing up in the hall outside Mike's room

na porta do cuarto de Mike,

e de mirar en silencio fixamente a parede, mentres el estaba dentro dela,

and staring at the wall silently while he was inside her,

wanting it to stop,

a desexar que aquilo rematase,

then shakily stumbling home.

para despois regresar a casa, a tremer e a cambalear.

She doesn't feel good about what happened,

Non se sente ben co sucedido, pero pensa:

but she thinks, "Maybe this is just what sex in college is?"

"Se cadra o sexo é sempre así na universidade".

One in five women and one in 13 men will be sexually assaulted

Unha de cada cinco mozas e un de cada 13 mozos, serán agredidas/os sexualmente

at some point during their college career in the United States.

nalgún intre da súa traxectoria universitaria nos EE. UU.

Less than 10 percent will ever report their assault to their school

Menos dun 10% denunciarán algunha vez estas agresións na súa facultade

or to the police.

ou perante a policía,

And those who do, on average, wait 11 months to make the report.

e as persoas que se atreven, esperan, de media, 11 meses para facelo.

Ao principio Hannah só desexaba gardar para si o que lle sucedera.

Hannah initially just feels like dealing with what happened on her own.

But when she sees Mike taking girls home from parties,

Mais cando ve a Mike levar outras rapazas á casa despois das festas,

she's worried about them.

fica preocupada por elas.

After graduation, Hannah learns

Ao rematar os estudos, Hannah decátase de que foi unha das cinco mozas

that she was one of five women who Mike did the exact same thing to.

ás que Mike lles fixo exactamente o mesmo.

And this is not an unlikely scenario

E este escenario non é improbábel,

because 90 percent of sexual assaults

xa que o 90% das agresións sexuais

are committed by repeat offenders.

son cometidos por agresores reincidentes.

Pero cun índice de denuncias tan baixo,

But with such low reporting rates,

it's fairly unlikely that even repeat perpetrators will be reported,

é ben improbábel que mesmo os reincidentes sexan denunciados,

much less anything happen if they are.

moito máis que lles aconteza algo se o son.

In fact, only six percent of assaults reported to the police

De feito, só o 6% das agresións denunciadas na policía rematan co agresor

end with the assailant spending a single day in prison.

condenado a algún día de prisión.

Meaning, there's a 99 percent chance that they'll get away with it.

É dicir que hai un 99% de posibilidades de que consigan saír impunes.

This means there's practically no deterrent to assault

Isto significa que practicamente nada pode disuadir estas agresións nos EE. UU.

in the United States.

Por formación, eu son epidemióloga especializada en doenzas infecciosas.

Now, I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist by training.

I'm interested in systems and networks

Estou interesada nos sistemas e redes

and where we can concentrate our resources to do the most good.

e onde debemos centrar os nosos recursos para facer o mellor ben posible.

Así que isto, para min, é un problema tráxico pero que ten solución.

So this, to me, is a tragic but a solvable problem.

Por iso cando as publicacións das agresións nos campus

So when the issue of campus assault started hitting the news a few years ago,

comezaron a ser noticia hai uns poucos anos,

it felt like a unique opportunity to make a change.

sentimos isto como unha oportunidade única para o cambio.

And so we did.

E así o fixemos.

We started by talking to college survivors.

Comezamos a falar coas víctimas na universidade,

And what they wish they'd had in college is pretty simple;

e o que elas desexaban ter alí era algo ben simple;

they wanted a website,

botaban en falla unha páxina web,

one they could use at the time and place

que puidesen usar no intre e no lugar

that felt safest to them

onde máis seguras se sentisen,

with clearly written information about their reporting options,

con información escrita e clara sobre as súas opcións de denuncia,

with the ability to electronically report their assault,

coa posibilidade de denunciar a agresión electronicamente,

rather than having the first step

no canto de ter que comezar

to go in and talk to someone who may or may not believe them.

por ir contarlle o sucedido a alguén

que podería crer a súa versión ou non.

With the option to create a secure, timestamped document

Coa opción de crear un documento, seguro e con marca de tempo, do ocorrido,

of what happened to them,

preserving evidence even if they don't want to report yet.

e gardar as probas mesmo se finalmente non se quere denunciar.

And lastly, and perhaps most critically,

E por último, e probabelmente o máis importante,

with the ability to report their assault

coa posibilidade de denunciar

only if someone else reported the same assailant.

tan só se algunha outra persoa denuncia ao mesmo agresor.

You see, knowing that you weren't the only one changes everything.

Verán, saber que ti non es a única, múdao todo.

Muda o xeito de expor a túa propia experiencia,

It changes the way you frame your own experience,

it changes the way you think about your perpetrator,

muda a túa forma de pensar acerca do autor do delito,

it means that if you do come forward,

significa que se dás o paso, alguén te apoiará, e esa protección será mutua.

you'll have someone else's back and they'll have yours.

We created a website that actually does this

Creamos unha páxina web que consegue realmente isto,

and we launched it [...] in August,

lanzámola hai dous meses, en agosto, en dous campus universitarios.

on two college campuses.

And we included a unique matching system

Incluímos un sistema de comparación único

where if Mike's first victim had come forward,

no cal, se a primeira vítima de Mike

dese o paso, gardase o rexistro,

saved her record, entered into the matching system

o introducise no sistema de comparación,

and named Mike,

e identificase a Mike,

and Mike's second victim had done the same thing

e meses despois unha segunda vítima fixese o mesmo,

a few months later,

they would have matched

estos datos cotexaríanse,

and the verified contact information of both survivors

e tras verificar a información de ambas as vítimas

enviaríanselle ás autoridades á vez,

would have been sent to the authorities at the same time

para investigalos e facer o seguimento.

for investigation and follow up.

Se existise un sistema coma este

If a system like this had existed for Hannah and her peers,

para Hannah e as súas compañeiras,

sería máis probable que denunciaran,

it's more likely that they would have reported,

that they would have been believed,

que as cresen,

and that Mike would have been kicked off campus,

e Mike fose expulsado do campus, fose a prisión,

gone to jail, or at least gotten the help that he needed.

ou polo menos recibise a axuda que precisaba.

And if we were able to stop repeat offenders like Mike

E se fósemos capaces de deter aos reincidentes coma Mike,

xusto despois da súa segunda agresión,

after just their second assault following a match,

seguindo esa concordancia,

vítimas como Hannah non seguirían mesmo aínda a ser agredidas en primeiro lugar.

survivors like Hannah would never even be assaulted

in the first place.

We could prevent 59 percent of sexual assaults

Poderiamos previr o 59% das agresións sexuais,

just by stopping repeat perpetrators earlier on.

só con deter os reincidentes decontado.

E como estamos a crear un método disuasorio real da agresión,

And because we're creating a real deterrent to assault,

for perhaps the first time,

se cadra por primeira vez,

maybe the Mikes of the world would never even try to assault anyone.

ao mellor outros Mikes polo mundo adiante

non intentarían agredir a ninguén.

O sistema que estou describindo,

The type of system I'm describing,

the type of system that survivors want

o tipo de sistema que precisan as vítimas,

is a type of information escrow,

garante a seguridade da información depositada,

meaning an entity that holds on to information for you

é dicir, a entidade protexe a información,

and only releases it to a third party

e unicamente se lle comunica a terceiros,

when certain pre-agreed upon conditions are met,

se se reúnen certas condicións preestablecidas,

such as a match.

como unha concordancia.

The application that we built is for college campuses.

A aplicación que creamos

destínase aos campus universitarios.

But the same type of system could be used in the military

Pero o mesmo tipo de sistema podería usarse no exército

or even the workplace.

ou ata nos centros de traballo.

We don't have to live in a world

Non temos que vivir nun mundo

where 99 percent of rapists get away with it.

onde o 99% dos violadores saian coa súa.

Podemos crear outro onde quen comete delitos

We can create one

where those who do wrong are held accountable,

responda polos seus actos,

where survivors get the support and justice they deserve,

onde as vítimas reciban o apoio e a xustiza que merecen,

where the authorities get the information they need,

onde as autoridades dispoñan da información que precisan,

and where there's a real deterrent

e onde haxa un elemento real de disuación

to violating the rights of another human being.

perante a violación dos dereitos doutro ser humano.

Thank you.

Grazas.

(Applause)

(Aplausos)