A male survivor shares how he was drugged and raped at a party, woke in a hospital, and later got a paternity notice for a daughter he never knew existed. He talks about trust issues and the isolation of being a man whose assault isn't believed.
Where do your trust issues come from?
My daughter's mom date raped me at a party.
So that means you didn't know about your daughter?
No, I found out when I got some papers in the mail from the OG office telling me to take a paternity test on my birthday.
Okay, so if you don't mind explaining this to me, 'cause I know this is probably shocking for a lot of y'all because when we hear things about like date rape, it's usually women being raped by men, we often don't get the stories of men being told. So what happened to you? Can you start from the beginning?
Yes, so on social media there was a party and I went to the party and she ended up killing my drinks and I woke up in the hospital.
And what happened when you woke up in the hospital?
They told me that I got date raped. I just had an oxygen machine on, my stomach was being pumped and the thing they put on your finger was on me, so.