Reopen My Rape Case

Reopen My Rape Case

Started
July 28, 2020
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Dover Police Department and 1 other
Signatures: 76,723Next Goal: 150,000
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Started by Mason Soares

Hey. My name is Mason Soares and I was raped by a 17 year old (almost 18) boy when I was 16. I’m 17 now. I had reported the rape to my local police department: Dover Police Department in New Hampshire.

I had been interviewed in the Stratford County Courthouse by a few investigators about my rape incident. I had screenshots from my rapist saying “I know and I should have stopped” while I was talking to him about me not wanting him to do what he did to me sexually. 

I will link a video below of me talking about it in-depth but even to this day, the day gives me flashbacks and I cant mentally handle saying it word by word knowing that the police didn’t care about my case.

I had been dizzy and was uncoordinated due to me taking too much cough syrup by accident. The medicine made it so i could barely walk. I had taken twice the recommended dose thinking it would work faster. I had walked to my friends house and hungout with my friend but I felt as if it would be unsafe for me to walk home because I was so dizzy and I thought I might accidentally walk into a moving vehicle. So I had messaged a guy I had feelings for at the time and asked him to give me a ride home. I didn’t ask him to rape me. My feelings toward him before my rape had no affect on whether my rape was true.

I reported my rape case to my local police department and I was in contact with Detective Carlson at the Dover NH Police Department for a bit asking about the process of my case. I had met with him in person two or three times.

I know people who have had problems with this specific detective with their abuse cases, etc. I didn’t know that at the time and though he cared about my case.

They had scheduled to interview my rapist but the day of the interview my rapist had lawyered up. The police department stopped then and there. They never talked to my rapist. Once he lawyered up they stopped. 

The least they could have done was interview my rapist. They didn’t even talk to him. It’s been over a year and there was nothing they did to make this case go further.

I was told by Detective Carlson that they would not go to court with my case. I demand that they reopen my case because I need justice for what had happened to me and I want to make sure nobody goes through what I went through with my rapist.

Please, help me get my case reopened.

Contact Detective Carlson: (603) 516-6123

Contact Dover Police Department: (603) 742-4646

Here’s the video I made a year ago about my rape experience which is very descriptive: https://youtu.be/Uy1Da8tORBU

 

Thank You so much. I really hope we can get this to happen.

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