Thread by @AmyEHarms

Here's what I do know: @roberts

Also note the dates on the documents from the prosecutor's office. Nobody told me a decision had been made or in any way discussed the possibility of a deferred prosecution with me prior to the letter being sent out. I found out that same day and only because I went there.

That's right! The local media undoubtedly found out before I did, since a story was published about it THAT SAME DAY. I'm an attorney, but I do not practice criminal law and I had never even heard of "deferred prosecution" before specifically.

I drove to St. Charles and waited for hours to speak to someone because so much time had passed and no one had contacted me. I saw that the office was speaking to the press about my case in local reporting. I couldn't understand why they'd speak to the press and not me.

After waiting for hours, I spoke to Jillian Anderson about my case for only the second time. This was the only time we ever spoke in person. She told me they were going to defer prosecution, that it was already decided. She explained it was like being on probation.

She said there was a deferred prosecution agreement with terms and conditions and that if @RobertsforSTL violated them he could be prosecuted later for his crime. I asked why this was the decision. She said Pam told the police she didn't see anything.

She said that the law was such that, even if we testified and everyone believed me (note that everyone involved believed me) and the witnesses, the jury couldn't find @RobertsforSTL guilty if he testified to something to the effect of him not knowing he didn't have my consent.

To be clear, this is NOT legally accurate. You'll also see from the police report that Pam told the police what she saw. It was YEARS LATER that I learned the prosecutor lied to me. It wasn't until after I received the production you see here.

I still have a voicemail saved on my phone from someone at the prosecutor's office returning my call after I reached out to them following news of Cora's case. The woman said they could charge him and would decide what to do and then let me know.

As you might guess, I never heard back from the office. Just like I never heard from them about their decision before they communicated it to his attorneys, who then communicated it to the local media.

I was never offered any victim's services by the prosecutor's office, as required under the Victims' Rights Law. I only spoke to the prosecutor about my case once, over the phone, with screaming children in the background making it difficult to communicate, before they decided.

I never stood a chance and it has nothing to do with me or the strength of my case. It has everything to do with the perpetrator. If there was a good reason not to prosecute, why would you lie? I have spent most of the last seven years being quiet.

I didn't want @RobertsforSTL to be unfairly prejudiced. I didn't want for the people of #STL to be unable to have him represent them, if that's what they wanted, though I couldn't fathom why they'd want that. I certainly didn't and don't want it.

I advocated for him, the person who sexually assaulted me, to be treated fairly. Everyone deserves that, even people who commit crimes-- even dreadful, life-altering ones. Everyone deserves a second chance. Really, everyone deserves more than two chances.

I just wanted him to get help. @RobertsforSTL clearly has a problem. That doesn't mean he can't do good things or that he hasn't. It doesn't mean he couldn't change. It doesn't mean he couldn't repent. It doesn't mean he should be demonized.

However, it's clear to me that @RobertsforSTL hasn't gotten the help he needs. He's still out here attacking his own victims. He's tried for years to shame us and blame us, to scare us into silence and submission. These are the hallmarks of an abuser, a predator.

My e-mail to @LaurenTrager, I think that was the first time I'd ever said it, but that's what he is. @RobertsforSTL is a sexual predator. @RobertsforSTL desperately needs help. Nobody has ever held him accountable for the things he's done. I tried. Cora tried.

It wasn't our job, but we both did it, anyway, because the prosecutor whose job it was failed us. I wanted to be his last victim. I was determined to be. This is why I reported his crime against me. You do not start offending at that level. You do not stop on your own.

What happened to Cora Faith Walker could have been prevented. It would have been if only the prosecutor tried my case. It's not about skin color. It's not about gender or biological sex. Anyone can be an abuser. Anyone can be a victim. Sexual assault is a vile crime.

It makes you feel worthless and damaged and dirty. To then be treated the way I was by the prosecutor's office only makes it worse. Jillian Anderson, while walking me out, told me this decision was better for me, that I could move on and get back to studying for the bar exam.

It wasn't better for me. I didn't move on. I can't. Every time I start to, this is thrust back into my immediate view. I cannot get away from @RobertsforSTL and what he did to me. He won't go away. I go in circles in my mind. The questions don't stop.

I barely sleep. I have nightmares when I do. The kind that you awake from in a panic. The kind that make it nearly impossible to get back to sleep at all. I've still never again been able to look at the building where it happened.

Seven years. It's been seven years since @RobertsforSTL sexually assaulted me, a complete stranger, in public and then tried to blame me for what he'd done. He's tried to blame me for it ever since, all while denying that it happened.

When I sued him, he hired an "expert" to say that I couldn't understand things that happened to me. That was his defense. Offered by a woman who had previously been in trouble for doing this same thing. How she dares work with victims, I'll never know.

Here's what I do know: @RobertsforSTL is guilty and he feels no remorse for what he did. He's done it before. He would do it again. Please keep this in mind when in his presence, not that you would ever be at fault if he were to harm you. Nobody could ever deserve this.