like ralph lauren pants that were ironed and lots of gold jewelry and nice smelling cologne. i was drawn to it. one day daniel offered teresa a ride home. i thought he was amazing and jumped at the chance like any 15-year-old girl would do and said sure. on the way home she says daniel stopped to show her his house and took teresa to an upstairs bedroom. one thing led to another. he kissed me. i d always known when to tell somebody to stop and he didn t and i kept getting louder and pushing him and trying to get him off me and he wouldn t stop until it was too late. for teresa, an obedient catholic girl, the rape was devastating. that was the most important thing to me in the whole wide world was my virginity. my religion was so important to me that this shame that that
beat and raped her. daniel drove teresa home. it was 4:30 in the morning. i was sore. i was bleeding again. i was it was terrible. i could hardly walk. so then i went to bed and got up two hours later to go to school. teresa says she realized daniel and his cousins were no ordinary teens. they were part of some kind of criminal network. flores says that three to four nights a week the boys would pick her up past midnight and use her to service them and their clients. most nights they took her to the same basement, where up to a dozen men would be waiting for her. she says sometimes they drove her to different houses where she was raped and sodomized for their pleasure. i was fully there as a material object for, here, we have a treat for you tonight. i knew something was up. patrick, teresa s younger brother, recalls his sister s radical personality change
were ironed and loafer shoes and lots of gold jewelry and nice-smelling cologne. and i was drawn to it. one day daniel offered teresa a ride home. i thought he was amazing and jumped at the chance like any 15-year-old girl would do and said sure. on the way home she says daniel stopped to show her his house and took teresa to an upstairs bedroom. one thing led to another. he kissed me. i d always known when to tell somebody to stop and he didn t and i kept getting louder and pushing him and trying to get him off me and he wouldn t stop until it was too late. for teresa, an obedient catholic girl, the rape was devastating. that was the most important thing to me in the whole wide world was my virginity. my religion was so important to me that this shame that that carried with it was huge. there was no way i wanted my mom to know that that had happened.
jewelry and nice smelling cologne. i was drawn to it. one day daniel offered teresa a ride home. i thought he was amazing and jumped at the chance like any 15-year-old girl would do and said sure. on the way home she says daniel stopped to show her his house and took teresa to an upstairs bedroom. one thing led to another. he kissed me. i d always known when to tell somebody to stop and he didn t and i kept getting louder and pushing him and trying to get him off me and he wouldn t stop until it was too late. for teresa, an obedient catholic girl, the rape was devastating. that was the most important thing to me in the whole wide world was my virginity. my religion was so important to me that this shame that that carried with it was huge. there was no way i wanted my mom to know that that had happened.
student. that s when her family relocated from a small world town to this upscale suburb outside detroit. i think it was the hardest move that we made. teresa s family moved every year as her father, an executive, climbed the corporate ladder. in 1981 that meant a new house, new friends, and starting a new life in a new high school. unlike the small, rural high school she had attended, her new high school had thousands of kids who teresa considered exotic, including a junior named daniel. he was very flashy and wore like ralph lauren pants that were ironed and lots of gold jewelry and nice smelling cologne. i was drawn to it. one day daniel offered teresa a ride home. i thought he was amazing and jumped at the chance like any 15-year-old girl would do and said sure. on the way home she says daniel stopped to show her his house and took teresa to an upstairs bedroom.