Kimberly Mull: A Rape & Trafficking Survivor’s Story

Violence against women and trafficking affects nearly one third of women. Kimberly Mull is a survivor of trafficking and a brutal rape. Her story is shocking as she seeks justice.

Kimberly Mull is a policy expert on violence against women and children. Mull’s journey started early, when she herself was trafficked between the ages of 11 and 14. It wasn’t until she was an adult that she realized it was her mission to be an advocate for other survivors. Nine years ago Mull was raped and she’s been seeking justice ever since. After being attacked, Mull deployed her self-defense firearm, which she attributes to getting her alleged attacker to leave.

Was her alleged rapist caught? Yes. Did her rapist confess? According to Mull, yes. Was he charged? As Mull tells it, no. And that’s where the story gets stranger than fiction.

A policy expert

Mull is from Texas and was raised in a law enforcement family. “I grew up in a very gun-friendly home, but then as an adult I made the journey, like a lot of women do, into liberal land and decided that guns were bad and evil,” Mull said during an interview with Bearing Arms. As her views changed, there were certain “rules” that she “had” to follow as a liberal gun owner, she explained. Some of that advice she took may have been to her detriment.

As a policy expert, Mull has shaped the legislative landscape in the areas she’s worked. While she grew up — and still lives — in Texas, Mull said that she spent about a decade in Nevada.

“I help legislators figure out how we can make the lives of victims of crime, specifically women and kids, better,” Mull explained. “I work on all kinds of pieces of legislation: everything from domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and child abuse — are kind of the main areas. I’ve worked on probably nearly 100 pieces of legislation over the last decade, mainly in Nevada, some in Oklahoma, Texas, and then, of course, in Washington, D.C.”

One night in Reno

It was in Nevada where the story of her attack took place. Like many millennials, Mull said she turned to the internet for dating prospects. After connecting with one individual, she said that she reluctantly agreed to meet him one evening at a local sushi restaurant where he was with some friends. While out, he invited her to come back to his place, which Mull said was a “no go,” but instead suggested they go to her home.

“It’s one of those things where you meet someone and you were talking and you like them on the app or texting, all that,” Mull said. “Being in person, you’re like, ‘Eh, maybe not my thing.’ And we made out. We, you know, made out a little bit, fooled around a little bit.”

Mull said that her attacker wanted to have sex, which she was not interested in. She asked him, “Well, do you even have a condom?” To which he said he did not.

“Yeah, we’re really not having sex without a condom,” Mull recounted saying. “And he decided that was not the right answer.”

“He was on top of me, he put his hand around my neck and started choking me and raped me,” Mull said. “During the whole time I was saying, ‘No, you’re raping me, stop.’”

Throughout the ordeal, thoughts swirled around in Mull’s head. “I know it take(s) seven pounds of pressure for him to choke me, or to kill me,” she thought. “Okay, I gotta, I gotta stay alive through this, I can’t pass out,” she repeated in her mind. Mull was worried about a “J-tube” that she had — a type of feeding tube due to a medical procedure she had recently at that time. “I was trying to keep the weight off of (the J-tube), because he could rip that out and literally rip my intestines out of me,” she said.

“There’s a gun in my closet …”

“All these things are going through my head, and then I kept thinking, there’s a gun in my closet. I have a gun in my closet,” Mull said. “When he laid down next to me, when he was done, he started talking about (how) he was going to rape me again. But, he wanted to invite a friend over. … ”

Mull said she followed the rules that a good liberal gun owner — her words — was supposed to follow. She kept her gun locked up in a lock box. She kept the ammunition separate from her gun, on the other side of the closet.

Seeing an opportunity, Mull asked if it was okay for her to go to the bathroom. Her rapist said it was okay. She was able to get into her closet, which is in the bathroom. She was fumbling with one hand, trying to get into the lock box. Mull said she tried to remain inconspicuous, but even her attacker chided her, “What? Do you (have) do … (are you) getting a gun?”

Using both hands, Mull was able to open the lock box and retrieve her gun. “I’m thinking (in) my mind, the bullets aren’t even here, the bullets are on that side of the closet, because I’m being a safe liberal,” Mull said. “Okay, it’s a revolver, you can see it — I had to make sure he can’t see there’s no bullets in it.”

“You just raped me, get out of my house …”

“I point the gun down in his direction, but down, so he couldn’t look directly into the revolver, and I said, ‘Yes, motherf*cker, you just raped me, get out of my house,’” Mull said. “At this point, he kind of takes a second and starts putting clothes on.”

After calling 911 Mull’s alleged rapist was caught a few blocks away from her house. She said she followed through with a police report and was examined. “They took evidence,” Mull said. “I had a rape — a sexual assault exam.”

In the days since

The aftermath in Mull’s case, as she explains it, is nothing short of wild. “The DA’s theory was: he could have been confused and thought it was a fantasy game, and that I wanted to say no, and I wanted to be raped,” Mull said. There were no charges ever brought up against her alleged rapist.

For the last nine years Mull has been acting as a victims advocate. Legislation that she helped usher through in Nevada included an important bill concerning victim’s rights. The law changed the statute of limitations in rape cases if there’s DNA evidence. Cases with DNA evidence no longer have a limit on when a suspect can be charged.

New light

Recent reporting by journalist Mark Robison at the Reno Gazette Journal uncovered some revelations that were new to Mull. She said that Robison’s deep dive into her story led to her learning about things she previously did not know.

“I found out recently he confessed twice to police, once to the police that arrested him, and once to the detectives that were interviewing him,” Mull said. “That yes, I was saying ‘no, stop it’ the whole time. That yes, I did not consent. That yes, I was saying he was raping me. And a week later the district attorney of Reno decided that that wasn’t good enough, and released him, and no charges were filed against him.”

Mull further explained that the DA said social media posts of Mull’s were damning to her case. Posting #MeToo movement-style pictures of her revolver prior to the incident, as well as post-incident pictures of her at the range were allegedly cited as evidence to work against her claims.

Robison’s coverage explored records he/RGJ obtained, conversations with Mull, as well as correspondence with the DA’s office. How the case was handled and or mishandled is up for debate. A debate that could continue come January.

Will Mull’s case be reopened?

The district attorney who no charged Mull’s alleged rapist has been primaried. Whether or not the new district attorney will reopen Mull’s case is not known. Since the law on the statute of limitations has changed via Mull’s advocacy, that’s on the table. There’s an opportunity to lay to rest the matter on whether or not charges would be appropriate with fresh eyes looking at the evidence.

A call to educate

Regardless of the outcome, Mull says she’s still going to work towards educating and empowering women. Her experience with having a firearm not ready for use at the time of her attack resonates with her.

“My goal is to try to help as many women and people as I can,” Mull said. “I think now I’m kind of leaning more to just helping people be educated and know that the whole notion that we’ve … a lot of us, not everybody — but a lot of us have (been) bought into (the narrative that) we have to keep our guns separate and locked away. When it comes down to it, that doesn’t help you, that’s when you need it, that doesn’t help you, and why have it if it’s not going to be accessible when you need it? I think that’s the main thing I want to help people with, and help (people) become educated and go from there.”

What if…?

Because of a firearm, Mull’s attack ended a certain way. Potentially because of the way Mull stored her firearm, her attack proceeded a certain way. It’s not a foregone conclusion that she would not have been attacked at all or to the degree to which she was if her revolver was in, say her nightstand and accessible. What we do know is that according to Mull, when she pointed her firearm at her alleged attacker, he left and she was able to call 911.

To learn about Kimberly Mull and follow her work, you can visit her on the web at KimberlyMull.com. If you’d like to watch the full recording of this interview, you can do so HERE, or in the embed below.

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