Rather than worry the attack wasn’t “bad enough” or worth reporting, the 61-year-old Berkeley resident said she listened to her gut.
On a sunny Saturday afternoon last spring, Jeannie Witkin was walking to a friend’s house in northwest Berkeley when a— in broad daylight. Stunned, in pain and angry after the seconds-long assault, she immediately started screaming at the top of her lungs, kicked her assailant in the shin and snapped a photo as he fled.
“I feel like we get taught to feel bad if we’re assaulted — we’re ashamed, we don’t tell people,” Witkin said in an interview. “I want to be one voice that counteracts that. I want women to know that we can fight back and take back our power. That’s how we take care of each other and help keep the next woman safe.”on Monday — one year after he committed his crimes over a two-month period. He did not know any of his victims.
“That’s tricky for women,” Witkin said. “If I had been 9 or 23 I probably would have been really scared and thought it was my fault. But I’ve lived long enough to realize that I didn’t do anything wrong — he did something wrong. I was flabbergasted, but really, I was just furious.”
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