Woman Defends Herself From A Rapist

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Kelly Herron, a woman who was training last March 5 for a marathon at Golden Garden's Park in Seattle, WA, was very clear that she was going to defend herself at any cost from a man who attacked her in one of the park's bathrooms.

The 36-year-old woman told ABC News that when she went to the services, she realized that the man, later identified as Gary Steiner, 40, and registered as a sex offender in Arizona, was observing her and, moments later, attacked her..

"He immediately knocked me to the ground, hit my knees and legs, and that's when we started fighting on the ground, while still screaming, 'Not today, son of …'", explained Herron.

When she tried to take shelter in one of the cubicles, the aggressor continued to stalk her, repeatedly hitting her "in the face" with her hands, she explained.

It was then that Herron put into practice the lessons he had learned three weeks earlier in self-defense classes.

"Of course you are afraid, but I wanted him to realize that he was not going to beat me, that I was not going to win that battle," he told the local channel KIRO 7, affiliated with ABC, in an interview.

Steiner was arrested after another person came to Herron's aid and they managed to lock the aggressor in one of the toilets until the police arrived to arrest him. according to the KOMO News channel. The prosecution accused him last Wednesday of attempted rape in the second degree.

Despite the terrifying experience, Herron was not intimidated and returned to the park to continue his training.

“We don't have to let ourselves be defeated. We do not have to be silent in the face of events like this,”he sentenced.