35 1 that woman who was in the room when I called Massage 2 Envy. 3 I asked to talk to the manager, Nicole. I told 4 her that I was just sexually assaulted by the defendant. 5 I asked if he was giving another woman a massage and she 6 said yes. 7 away from the woman. 8 she invited me in to talk about my services. 9 I begged her to stop the massage and get him She said she could not do that, and By this point I was desperate. I asked her to 10 have the owner -- the local franchise that is owned by a 11 woman -- I asked her to have that woman call me. 12 said she couldn't do that. 13 worry for that poor woman alone with him. 14 her, Nicole, he stuck his fingers in my vagina less than 15 an hour ago. 16 of the room and get the owner to call me. Nicole I then became frantic with And I said to You must do the right thing. Get her out 17 I could not believe that I was being violated a 18 second time by a company that had complete disregard for 19 my emotional plea for help both for myself and for the 20 woman in the room with the defendant. 21 It felt even worse when I found out later that 22 day that the defendant told the detectives that he had 23 been suspended because a woman he sexually assaulted 24 reported him to the manager of Massage Envy. 25 this incident, my frantic call should have prompted Because of 36 1 immediate attention to a dangerous situation, but it did 2 not. 3 When I realized that the manager and the owner 4 were not willing to protect their clients, I called the 5 police, who asked me to come to the station to be 6 interviewed. 7 When my daughter and I went to the police 8 station within the hour, my mind was in an altered state 9 that was foreign to me. It was the strangest thing I've 10 ever felt. 11 Detective Carroll, I was thinking of my body as a 12 separate entity that I needed to protect, but that the 13 assault didn't happen to me. 14 would lift my head up from table, and tried to stop 15 sobbing long enough to answer. 16 he's a good man. 17 Even as I was providing a detailed account to As he asked me questions I Yet continued to say, but My brain simply could not process how good turns 18 to evil in mere minutes, without my street smarts ever 19 kicking in to give me a warning or a sense that something 20 wasn't right. 21 It was hard to process then, and it still is, 22 that someone I trusted for nine months, who had shared 23 his faith in God, was someone who presented himself as a 24 kind and decent man -- was not that at all. 25 For the first time ever in my life it caused me