http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/texas.rape.victim/index.html

"It's not about me anymore," she explained. "It's about all the little girls
that go to sleep at night. I know there are so many girls out there who have
been raped and hurt. You have to fight back."

For that, Schuett, 27, is relying on her voice, her memory and advances in DNA
testing.

"I remember everything; I've always wanted to remember everything, so I can find
the person that did this," Schuett told CNN during a phone interview. "If I had
blocked this out of my memory, the investigation wouldn't have come this far.
I'm a fighter." [...]

"For the first two years, I had nightmares and was scared," she said. "But I
never wanted sympathy. ... If I had given up, he would have won, and I wanted to
show him: 'You didn't win.' "

Shuettt said she is now "on a manhunt."

(The article could be triggering. But it is the story of a survivor, that is why
I am posting it)


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