An unreported rape victim blamed herself for a later attack on another girl

Evidence

“When I heard that a sixth-grade Okinawan girl was raped by three U.S. soldiers near a U.S. base,” Yumi said, “I thought I was partly responsible because I didn’t tell anyone what had happened to me.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 563

Categorization

• SEED: This survivor-guilt mechanism could anchor a piece on how institutions that deter reporting compound victims’ trauma and silence.
• XREF: connects to: Victim blaming displaces responsibility onto the target of attack. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1310
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Victim blaming displaces responsibility onto the target of attack. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1310