 Can I make 40 here just shocking story in the Washington Post right now a merchant Marine cadet said she was assaulted at sea Her account has Washington looking Francis. Here's the killer thing. We may never know why this happened All right, so she was the only woman on this ship and The crew members cheered according to her story when the 19 year old female cadet the only woman on the ship She walked into the cigarette smoke filled a state room Drink with us. She recalled them saying and you can have tomorrow at work So the cadet a midshipman at the US merchant Marine Academy. She got drunk And you will never guess what happened next and we may never understand why this happened Two engineers brought her up to her room then put her into the shower while clothed trying to sober her up After one engineer left the cadet recalled she remembers being naked in the shower Being sexually assaulted by the other engineer We may never understand why this happened like why would this happen when she's the only woman on a ship? 19 years of age and gets drunk with all the guys We may never understand. This is so bewildering She she woke up the next morning and she realized she'd been raped Then she had to spend weeks more on the ship stuck at sea Routinely crossing paths with the man. She said who attacked her it was like literally living in hell and She tried to resume her studies after returning to the Academy, but she was destroyed inside for two years She told nobody what happened. She feared people would doubt her and last month She wrote an account of the attack for a website that advocates for victims of sexual assault at sea We will we will likely never understand why the only woman on a ship a 19 year old woman who gets drunk with the guys Would then become a victim of sexual assault I'm like pulling my hair out like why would this happen when you're the only woman a young woman and you get drunk with a bunch of guys I Mean this is this is shocky like who could have foreseen this Who could have predicted this who could have warned this woman? It's kind of dangerous to be the only woman at sea and to get drunk with the guys Like who could have foreseen Could not someone who's spoken up did not have parents tell her about being at sea drunk alone with a bunch of guys We may never know why this happened