“I've never heard another man discuss the impact a rape of a woman he loved had upon him. But I've lived it and feel compelled to share.”

Sexual assault is a heinous crime to inflict on anyone. The lifelong implications of rape and assault are unfathomable to those who haven’t experienced it. So too are the feelings of those close to the victim. One man has taken to Twitter, compelled to share his experience. He begins by explaining that it was the night before his birthday. https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765638436736819202 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765638947527458816 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765639568557117444 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765639844726919168 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765640185308524545 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765640430272679936 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765640896691904512 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765641192356745216 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765641496250818560 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765641813449322497 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765642501940142080 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765642501940142080 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765642862595870721 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765643286962778112 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765643610742071296 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765643867827744768 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765644551952306177 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765644842722402304 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765645268809166848 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765645499219136512 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765645893034840065 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765646263681290240 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765646510302203904 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765646959898013696 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765647312156635136 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765647558827925504 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765648076820258816 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765648278968864768 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765648596767154176 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765648916125589504 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765649193566220288 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765649422067707904 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765649697629360128 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765650016203517953 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765650243937443840 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765650484749217792 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765650752471601153 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765651469315952640 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765651660597178368 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765651903304785920 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765652173975760896 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765652502620409857 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765652725623169024 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765653382413504512 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765653668938952705 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765653977769713665 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765655530878545920 https://twitter.com/AngryBlkManDC/status/765655812710596608 The Twitter user identified Aaron Thomas as the rapist. In 2015 Thomas confessed to being the East Coast Rapist and admitted responsibility for a number of rapes that occurred during the 90s. According to The Washington Post Thomas is responsible for more than a dozen rapes from the 1990s to 2009 in Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island and Connecticut. During his trial, remarks from victims were read. “The funk of your body and the claminess of your skin still haunt me,” said one in a statement. She wrote about not allowing the incident to destroy her. “I will continue to love harder and keep pushing,” she wrote. “That night will never go away, the wet, cold, painful and lifeless feeling will forever be a part of me, but my spirit will not be broken.”