The real insanity is that the majority of comments are clinging to this out of context sentence as discrediting the author especially when it comes well after this earlier statement

> Less than a week later, Jacob raped me in his apartment. Two of Jacob’s friends witnessed the assault, one other participated.

> In June 2016, I published a description of my assault under the pseudonym “River” on jacobappelbaum.net alongside others’ accounts of harassment and assault.