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00:00It was just like, wow, I'm getting attention, like it's my type of person that I would probably
00:24go for.
00:25Someone thinks I'm special.
00:26I don't think any of these things about myself.
00:28So the fact that someone feels that way about me, it just made me feel like this is where
00:33I need to be.
00:34His behaviour was always very dodgy, like he was a very reclusive person and he didn't
00:37really speak that much.
00:38And when he did, you could tell that he was weird.
00:40Something was off about him, like being annoyed but at the same time having to support her
00:43during this situation.
00:44It was quite, it was quite hard.
00:47The process in having to report the abuse that I experienced happened on the day when
00:55my neighbour had called the police.
00:57I think for me the biggest shift is seeing that light bulb moment where the young girl
01:05realises that actually something may have happened that's not okay and being able to
01:10have a conversation.
01:12I think that there are certain narratives that we're fed and certain lines that we're
01:16sold around what men are supposed to be.
01:19So we're meant to be emotionally in control, we're meant to be stoic, we're meant to be
01:24dominant, we're meant to be in charge, we're meant to be protectors, we're meant to be
01:27providers.
01:28And some of those things aren't bad, but I think some of those things become easily corrupted
01:34and can turn into violence and manipulation and abuse.
01:38Phone, now, Marshall.
01:39If I can't have my phone then neither can you.
01:40Are you mad?
01:41I didn't ask for no chat.
01:42Everything in my body was saying this situation isn't right.
01:43From when I'm seeing, you know, young women naked being dragged back into a house, that's
01:57when there's something going on there.
02:00I'm glad that I did call the police.
02:02Hello, police.
02:03What's the emergency?
02:04Have you sent someone over there?
02:05You think you're magic?
02:06Have you sent someone over there?
02:09You think you're magic?