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The Weekend Read: ‘The first victim’

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The Story of a Parametic

A year after the incident, a colleague sent her a link to a news article. The story was about a parametic who had been arrested for sexually touching two female patients on the sydney railway network. She replied immediately, oh my god. I wonder if it's him vark, he was bald and had the same build hit. Two weeks later, almost a year after she had fainted on the train platform, having tracked back through the paramidic patient records, she explained over the phone what had happened. Her doubts about the process became peripheral to the sense that she could have prevented his future behaviour had she resisted or reported him. In her mind, she had failed to

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