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The victim has to deal with the lawyer defending the perpetrator. The perpetrator's lawyers often ask degrading questions which add to the stress and shame, such as "what were you doing in the parking lot at night and what were you doing wearing that dress?-. .
             The victim's overall self-esteem and spirit are brought down. Feelings of shame and guilt often take over her feelings of self worth and bring on self-blame. In other situations the victim may develop psychological thoughts of "escape- while being abused. They think that her body is not her own, it belongs to someone else as ways to cope with it. This may lead to future problems while dealing with sexual relationships. They may also develop eating disorder for example, if the victim is thin, she will want to become fact, and if the victim is fact, she wants to be thin. The victims might also face emotional abuse such as "you are fat and ugly- and "you will never accomplish anything-. It is difficult for a person who survives this event to think positively, especially after listening to this abuse years after years. The perpetrator wants power and control as labeled in the power and control wheel.
             Victims often face apathy and powerlessness outlooks because they feel that no one cares and they cannot do anything about the violence. During the violence, they feel helpless because the perpetrator takes the control and power of the incident. .
             In incest, the victims are often afraid of telling the other parent of the abuse. They have a lack of trust, confusion and mixed feelings to the parent who sexual violated them. They do not know whether to trust that person who provides care for them or to hate that same person who sexual abuses them. The body has been through a stressful and degrading act of violence. They feel life threatened and often do not know how they get out of it. They often times are forced to have sex while being held down against their will.


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