On text, ‘What can you do to make this go away?’
The interaction moved to text message, “I need to talk rn” McLeod wrote, meaning “right now.”
E.M. tells him she can’t talk. He writes, “Did you go to the police after Sunday?”
She says she was feeling nervous at this point and didn’t want to respond. She also says she felt scared and wanted to avoid confrontation.
She replied to McLeod: “I talked to my mom about it and she called I think, but I told her not to. I don’t want anything bad to come of it, so I told her to stop.”
McLeod wrote back: “You said you were having fun.”
“I was really drunk, didn’t feel good about it at all after. But I’m not trying to get anyone in trouble, I know I was in the wrong too,” E.M. wrote.
“I was ok with going home with you, it was everyone else afterwards that I wasn’t expecting. I just felt like i was being made fun of and taken advantage of,” she continued by text.
E.M. then got messages from McLeod saying, “What can you do to make this go away?”
“Can you please figure out how to make this go away and contact police,” McLeod again asks.
