An 18-year-old woman from the NSW Central Coast, on her first night out in Sydney’s Kings Cross, is led into an alleyway behind a nightclub by the 21-year-old son of the nightclub’s owner. There she loses her virginity, on hands and knees, gravel tearing into her skin. She alleges rape. He says he thought she consented. The case drags on for five years, through two trials and two appeals, during which the accuser remains anonymous and the accused is eventually acquitted.
In May this year, that young woman, Saxon Mullins, now a 23-year-old office worker, stepped into the spotlight, telling the ABC’s Four Corners program that she’d always dreamed her first time would on a bed strewn with rose petals with someone who loved her, rather than an alleyway with someone whose name she couldn’t remember. “There’s something I need to get off my chest. Those awful things happened to me,” she told Four Corners. “I am that girl.”
