Colorado’s backlog leaves sexual assault survivors without answers, without closure
By Bente Birkeland | Colorado Sun, CPR and Andrea Kramar
Editor’s note: This story contains details of sexual assault and might be difficult for some readers. Originally published at cpr.org.
It’s a situation Miranda Spencer never thought she’d find herself in. The Denver mom was going through a divorce in November of 2023, when she decided to try a dating app for the first time. She used Bumble.
“That’s one I thought was safe,” she recalled.
After a few uneventful first dates, Spencer agreed to meet a man who had been persistently messaging her.
“So I let a friend know, ‘hey I’m gonna go out,’ and the exact words that I used were, ‘on this pity date. You can come over afterwards and hang out.’”
Those ended up to be fateful words. She said she only remembers the fi...