How the fuck is there a statute of limitations for rape in New York?

[Mermaid]

Why should women report sexual assault? The norm is to doubt, berate, and blame anyone who has reported it. Rapists with eyewitnesses to the crime don't go to jail for more than a few months, and that's if they go to jail.

Why SHOULD we report it?

I understand where you're coming from.  I've been there.  And yeah, it's infuriating.  But I think it's important (at least for me it was) to stand up and say out loud - "I'm a human being, and what was done to me is NOT okay."  Even if no one listens.  You're saying it for yourself.  I was dragged into the police station practically kicking and screaming by my friends, lol, and nothing came of if it.  But in hindsight, I'm glad I took that stand for my own humanity.  I think I would have regretted not reporting.  But that's me.  I'm only one silly person after all.  [emoji12]. I'm not sure what the research says about psychological healing with regards to reporting versus not reporting, if any exists at all.  Any one got anything?

I reported being raped when I was 15. I was doubted, berated by people who heard the rumors, accused of lying and/or asking for it because of where I was walking, and a rape kit was collected but never processed. I gave a humiliating statement in front of my mother and several male police officers, and in the end, exactly nothing was done. It was not taken seriously at all. I am not even sure the town police believed me. If they did, they did absolutely nothing about it.

It would have been an easier experience for me to just not report it, I think.