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This Christmas will be the second one since George Smith reported being

assaulted in a bar just down the street from his Montgomery

lt’s later
in the
evening and now there are 26 people
there. and some ofthe earlier folks
had left. This guy [whom he names]
came over to me with a brass palm
piece and hit me in the back of the
head four times. His hand was cut. I
saw the brass thing andthe cut. I was
groggy and in and out of conscious-
ness from then on.

“The owner of the bar was
holding me down. Someone boxed
my ears. I was fighting back and
smashed some of the people in the
mouth. I smashed Adam in the fore-
head. I was on my back with my
arms held down and I was being
raped anally. I thought it was a dream
- the doctor I saw said that was part
of the date-rape thing.”

“I woke up again and dif-
ferent people were punching me.
Some of the people I didn't even

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know. All I could think of was ‘Why
are they doing this to me, what a hor-
rible dream this is!’ It all went pretty
smooth, and that tells me that they’ve
done it before. I’m not the first and I
won’t be the last if they‘re allowed to
stay open.

“The door to the bar was
locked. Eventually I was able to
break free and got out. The lights had
been on, and when I got away, they
were off, so I know a lot of time had
gone by. [The man he had identified
had earlier] told me he was homo-
phobic. He [had] even offered to buy
me a drink if I’d get away from the
pool table.

“I came home, and I could-
n’t go to sleep. I kept having flash-
backs. I called my mother, I called
91 l, I called the state police, who
called an ambulance. The ambulance
attendant said that if I went with
them it.would cost me $600. I didn’t

trust anyone that night, so I didn’t go.

“At first I didn’t tell any-
one about the sexual assault part
because I didn’t believe they’d care. I
did tell NUSI [the Northwest Unit on
Special Investigations] several
months later.

“I hope the bartender loses
his right to serve alcohol in the state
of Vermont.

“I‘ve talked to so many
attorneys and as soon as I tell them I
was raped they tell me they’re not
interested or they have a conflict of
interest. Every time I talk about it I
feel like it’s happening again. I have
to do the right thing and the right
thing is to tell what really happened.

“Afterward, I pretty much
locked myself into my apartment and
painted everything I had to deal with
my feelings. After the assault I want-
ed to kill myself. It’s too much on top
of being disabled, you know what I

mean? And I’m so tired of having to
explain myself for things that hetero-
sexuals take for granted. ‘You went
to a neighborhood‘ bar — are you
nuts‘?”’ A

The paintings he refers to
are plain wooden panel-back kitchen
chairs. One is painted black and blue.

Piles of Documents -
No Results

George Smith hunts in his tiny clut-
tered apartment for a folder of
assault-related documents, “helped”
by two frisky half-grown kittens.

The first document is a
sheet of notes dated October 22 and
taken by Doctor Robert Zelazo of the
Richford Health Center detailing
George's injuries:

Cut in center of nose
Defensive wounds on right hand 5

Center home.

On left hand 6

Left forarm [sic] 6 defensive wounds.
brousings [bruising]

Right forarm [sic] defensive?

Right upper arm boot mark

Left upper arm
R eye
L eye blood vessle [sic] broke
Right foot

Calf 2

Thy [sic] 3

Buttox [sic] 1
Left foot

Calf

Thy [sic]

Buttox [sic]Bruise leftside
Back

Chest Leftside bruise by heart
Abdomen bruise

Right side ribs

Left side ribs

Right neck

Left [ditto]

Front [ditto]



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