Jesus’s lifetime and an ever-memorable trip to Nevada, United States of America, seemed to have been a poisoned chalice. Gabrielle’s phone call from the United States Embassy brought unexpected thunderstorm news which added some more reflexive questions in his mind. Why did Amber keep quiet for all this period? Why was she or her family taking me to court? Why did they not try to listen to me before taking me to court? Did she also say I raped her? Is it her family’s version? Why would she make a call to the rapist if that is what they allege? As the judge was speaking … I was even more terrified and totally lost ground when I heard the particulars that sexual assault is prosecuted as Category A Felony, which meant I could be potentially deprived of my freedom and be dragged to serve an abysmal life-sentence-imprisonment if I were convicted.
Jesus Macie is a short-story writer, a Portuguese-English sworn translator, a log-career high school teacher and an aspirant education policy maker with over 18 years of work in the field of education. He is a United Kingdom Chevening Scholar, a United States Fulbright Scholar and an awardee of the 2019 Teaching Excellence and Achievement Programme from the US Department of State.