Ted Poe: “I want to tell Megan's story from her point of view and her beliefs. She was smart, kind, ambitious, and funny. She…”

“I want to tell Megan's story from her point of view and her beliefs. She was smart, kind, ambitious, and funny. She loved other people. After attending high school in Austin, Texas, she enrolled in the University of Alabama. She had a beautiful life--that is, until she was sexually assaulted in January of 2015. After a night of drinking with her friends, Megan was ready to go home and go to bed. However, a finely dressed young businessman who referred to himself as ``Sweet T'' offered to give her a ride. You see, Mr. Speaker, ``Sweet T'' was from the richest family in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and just so happened to be a big financial backer of that university. Megan didn't remember climbing into his sleek Mercedes, but she woke up at his Southern mansion and knew something was wrong. Megan said she resisted his initial advances and repeatedly told him she wanted to go home. He refused to do so. Instead, he sexually assaulted her, and then he fell off to sleep. She tried to get out of the room, but the door was locked. Desperate to escape, Megan climbed out of the mansion's second-story bedroom window and went to his car looking for her keys. It was there that she discovered a handgun Sweet T had in the car all the time but took it for her safety on her walk home. Doing everything a rape victim should do, she immediately called the police and went to the hospital. But it is here, Mr. Speaker, that the system, she says, started to fail her.…”