People who want to bring a sexual assault lawsuit should definitely keep all correspondence they have, including text messages, emails, and any photos taken around the time of the assault.
It’s very important in cases like this to have evidence from the time period when the incident occurred, showing that something happened, because lawsuits can take years.
Looking back, it’s really powerful if a person has a police report, or if they called their mom, spouse, or best friend, or wrote a text message—anything that provides a contemporaneous record.
If a person took photos of bruising or other injuries, that is also extremely important evidence for us to have.
