Mandy Boardman had a good life with her husband and their children — busy, but good. "Normal," she called it. But now, in response to the attention Donald Trump's lawyer is getting for saying "you can't rape your spouse," Boardman is sharing her harrowing story of the ongoing drugging and rape she endured for years at the hand of her husband in an essay for TIME.
It started when she started to feel tired and inexplicably forget things, Boardman writes, about seven years into their marriage. Then she'd wake up with a bitter taste in her mouth, or naked when she went to bed with clothes on. When she caught her husband trying to drug her in her sleep once, he admitted it but convinced her it was so she would sleep better, that it was for her own good. Finally, she checked his phone.
"I found something on that phone that would change my life forever," she writes, "video taken by my husband of him having sex with me while I was passed out cold. There were three videos in total and in each one I looked like I was dead. I panicked."
Boardman was able to bring her husband to court where he was convicted of six Class B felonies, but she still encountered disturbing skepticism from the judge, and her husband was released with only house arrest. That's right: six felonies and no jail time. Not one day.
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