When Shireen Ghorbani was 8 years old, someone came up behind her in a swimming pool in California and stuck his or her fingers into her swimming suit bottoms and inside her body.
“I never saw a face,” she wrote on Twitter last week. “I had no idea what to say. #WhyIDidntReport”
The Democratic candidate for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District is one of a number of Utahns taking to social media with a hashtag that aims to explain the confusion, shame and fear that prevent many women from coming forward about their sexual assaults.
“No one ever did that to me after that moment; no one had ever done that to me before that moment,” Ghorbani told The Salt Lake Tribune of her assault.