CLEVELAND, Ohio — Chelsea Perkins had been sexually abused four times, beginning at about age 4, when a babysitter attacked her.

She reported being raped in high school, abused by a superior in the U.S. Coast Guard and raped in 2017 by a man who she had a relationship with. None of the reports resulted in arrests, her attorneys said.

Four years after the 2017 incident, Perkins lured the man she had accused of rape, Matthew Dunmire, to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where she fatally shot him in the back of the head. Perkins was sentenced on Tuesday to 22.5 years in federal prison.

The case gained national attention for some of its lurid details , but it also shed light on the trauma that comes when someone reports a rape and an arrest is never made.

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