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There's no such thing as "the past" for a victim of nonconsensual pornography. It is cumulative exposure. More people see the picture every day, forever.
Victims of these crimes who speak up to accuse political candidates cannot avoid being retraumatized. They cannot avoid having their pictures dredged up from among the millions of others posted to humiliate, degrade and terrify people. Their only options are to be silent and hope that nobody starts circulating the pictures now that their perpetrators are receiving national or international publicity as respected members of society and potential lawmakers, or to speak up about their abuse and in so doing instantly multiply that abuse.
There's Mr. Coleman openly discussing his mental health problems and even blaming his school for the way that he abused girls. When victims of sexual abuse speak up, how often are mental health problems which they experienced because of that abuse, or which made them more vulnerable to abuse in the first place, used against them to portray them as unreliable?
Also, Mr. Coleman is not an anomaly. The things that he did have been happening all over the world for years. Maybe he did have some mental health problems, but all he did when he bullied and extorted girls was follow mainstream social cues.
This quote isn't even about the girl whose picture he passed around; it's about the one whom he bullied about her appearance and told to kill herself:
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