An A&E, Original Podcast.

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

I didn't care what happened to my body anymore. I was wanted to live. I just wanted to get out alive. I did not want my life to end that day in that way.

In 1992, 19 year old Fabian Witherspoon

was living in Charleston, West Virginia.

I was living with my fiance.

He was being sent to Alabama for boot camp for the Army.

We were living with his mother at the time.

And while my fiance was going to be away at boot camp she thought well

wouldn't you like your own space my boss is going to go away and she has a cat would

you like to cat sit for her and so I was a little nervous at first,

but I did respect her offering me some privacy

in that little bit of time alone.

So I said yes.

In the morning of May 13th, I had decided to go to the health department downtown to get a pregnancy test because I thought maybe I might there might be a possibility that I was pregnant so I didn't have a vehicle or

bike or bicycle or anything so I walked had to walk down over the little bridge down

into to downtown Charleston.

So when I went to the health department,

they did the pregnancy test, just urine test,

and they said it was negative.

And we were hoping, but we weren't, you know, on any pressure to have a baby right away,

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