Teen alleges rape, shares trauma on YouTube

YOUTUBE PLEA: The teenager says that she doesn't regret making the video and sharing her story.

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Florida: A 16-year-old teenager turned to the Internet and posted her plea for help on Youtube after prosecutors dropped her sexual assault case.

“I was raped by a 23-year-old man, and no one wants to help me. I'm tired of it, so I had to turn to making a video - to post it on the Internet - for somebody to hear me and help me,” says the teenager.

Crystal, the teenaged girl says that she grew up in a troubled family environment with her father going in and out of jail.

She says that when she was 15-years-old, she met Casey Mundling at a party who was 23-years old then. She recalls a night of drinking and drugs and then she says she passed out.

“When I pass out in the middle of the night, and I wake up to a man in me - That's not right,” says Crystal.

However, when her estranged father found pictures of crystal posted on her Myspace page, posing with her 23-year-old 'boyfriend' - he tracked her down.

Last November, police arrested Mundling for having sex with an underage girl. They charged him with lewd or lascivious battery. Crystal and her father thought the case would be prosecuted - since Florida law states a 15-year-old cannot give consent to having sex.

The prosecutor concluded that the pair had 'consensual sex' - and though crystal was only 15 at the time, she was 'a mere month away' from turning 16.

Crystal now lives with her dad trying to re-capture the childhood she never had. She says she doesn't regret making the video and sharing her story, as all she wanted was someone to listen to her.