“Reporting is never easy, but it doesn’t have to be that hard.”

NBC News reports.

Colleges Embrace Online Anonymous ‘Snitching’ to Fight Sexual Violence

It took Jessica Ladd over a year to tell her college that she was sexually assaulted by a friend, and when she finally had the courage, no one took her seriously.

“The experience of reporting was almost as traumatic as the assault itself,” said Ladd, now 30. “I felt unprepared … I felt really not believed, and I didn’t have any control over what was going to happen next.”

Ladd used her experience at Pomona College to create technology that allows students to confidentially record an assault before they are emotionally ready to trigger an investigation.