Help Haley Pay Her Medical Bills
Hello everyone!
My name is Bob and I'm fund-raising to to help pay off my partner's medical bills and other expenses related to her assault on Sacramento State Campus.
One night last semester, I began to worry. Haley, a full-time Masters student didn't come home at her usual time. I spent hours worried sick that something bad had happened to her. Around 10:30 that night, two of her classmates brought her home. As soon as she walked into the door, I immediately knew she was drugged. She was blacked out, stumbling, falling dead-weight throughout the apartment. Instinct took over and I rushed her to the hospital.
We went to the local emergency room (for which she wasn't insured, and the wait at Kaiser would have taken hours) and got her into a room where she was kept all night in fear that she had a concussion from passing out and hitting her head on a desk. Later we find out that she had acute benzodiazapine toxicity, a drug often used to take advantage and assault women.
Haley has no memory of the event and can only recall drinking Jamba Juice in the writing center on campus before losing consciousness around 3:00 PM. After asking around we found a few people that had seen her that day, but being bolstered with second hand accounts provide little information on what really happened. She went to study at the graduate writing room, then that's where everything went black. Haley only remembers being in this room and did not gain awareness until early the next morning. While drugged, she mentioned to a nurse that she had visited the round table on campus, but otherwise there is nothing else to go off of. Two of her classmates noticed that she was falling unconscious and was unable to walk by herself and drove her home.
Making a police report with Sac State Campus Police provided no help. They consistently victim-blamed Haley for her actions, and said that there was nothing they can do to help. The person who drugged her was never found, and there is a very distinct possibility that they are continuing to prey on vulnerable women. Instead, the police centered the investigation around the idea that she had taken the drug voluntarily - something that further traumatized Haley and has left her feeling helpless.
Since this event, our inability to pay the medical bill (and other bills as a byproduct) has lead us to the brink of not being able to pay our rent or to take care of our basic needs. We both are full time students, with full time jobs, but its getting to a point where we need help desperately. I want the ability to provide an environment of safety and healing for her, and to take away the financial burden that has been making it difficult to move on.
Please share if you can, any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is a link to the incident, as covered by the Sac State newspaper
https://issuu.com/state.hornet/docs/news_issue4_f18_finalpdfs