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The price of assault nobody's talking about: and it's not just emotional

The Cornell Seven. Jane Doe. The headlines scream about outrage and prevention debates, but they skip the real bill. Who actually pays after an assault? Spoiler: it's never the perpetrator. Legal fees, therapy, lost work, the cost of simply surviving, it adds up to a debt nobody signed up for. We covered one side of this in "Couture chaos: Why every Jane Doe deserves her own red carpet moment," but this story? This one tracks the dollars.