Stephanie said she told her friend what had happened the next day and as they had already paid for their accommodation, they took the decision to stay while Stephanie desperately tried to forget about what happened.
She said her host carried on like nothing had happened, even buying her little gifts.
Stephanie said she never reported it and didn’t tell anyone else about it because she simply felt she couldn’t.
Her story appears on The Feed tonight on SBS 2.
“I do feel like there is this sort of unspoken agreement that girls look out for other girls,” Stephanie tells The Feed.
“And not that you expect a guy to violate you, and I don’t walk down the street expecting to be raped by a man, but you really don’t expect it from a woman because they’re meant to be on your side.”
Stephanie told news.com.au she hasn’t had counselling yet but urges anyone who has been assaulted to talk about it.
“I couldn’t deal with it (reporting the attack),” she said.
“I didn’t ever want any contact or anything to do with her again and victims don’t ever want to see their attackers again.”
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