Daisy Coleman is a survivor. 

Daisy Coleman and her Family (Melinda Coleman/Facebook.com/melinda.coleman1/photos)

She is the survivor for the Maryville rape case in Missouri. On xoJane.com, Coleman released her story, telling what really happened on January 8, 2012. The then 14-year-old Coleman was having a sleepover with her 13-year-old best friend, Paige. Coleman was also texting Matthew Barnett, a 17-year-old senior.

Barnett asked Coleman if she wanted to hang out. She went even through she was drunk (she and Paige were drinking) and even though her older brother warned her about Barnett. Coleman was not romantically interested in Barnett. She simply thought of him as her brother’s friends so she thought she could trust Barnett. 

She was with Barnett and four of his friends in his basement. He brought out a clear bottle of alcohol and poured Coleman a drink into a five shot tall glass, dubbed by the boys as the “bitch cup.” After she drank it, Coleman doesn’t remember what happened. She recalls the cold and darkness. It turns out that the boys left her out in the snow after they raped her. 

Coleman's mother, Melinda, found her. Melinda took Coleman to the hospital where the doctors confirmed she was raped. 

After that, her life began a downward spiral. Coleman found out that Paige was raped as well. Her older brother was bullied. Her mom lost her job. And soon their house was burned down. Coleman stopped believing in God. “I quit praying because if God were real. Why would he do this?” Coleman says in the xoJane article. 

Coleman began cutting herself; any available skin was cut. She was called a slut and liar on Facebook and Twitter, Buzzfeed reported. 

The charges against Barnett were dropped because he was a popular football player related to a politician. One of the boys there even videotaped the rape on his cell phone. 

Nodaway County Prosecutor Bob Rice dropped the case, “because there was not enough evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.” Rice says in an article on Aljazeera America. 

However, someone is on Coleman’s side. Recently, the online activist group, Anonymous, tweeted #justice4Daisy and it started trending. Since then, the pressure has come down hard on authorities to investigate the case and not sweep it under the run like it never happened. 

Daisy is not running away or hiding- this is way she released her story. She is a survivor and the reopening of her case is a victory for all girls. 

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