MADISON COUNTY, Ohio — At 18, most new adults are preparing to take on the world. But at that tender age in 2004, Jamie Matheny said she felt her world crumbling all around her.

Court records show she survived a sexual assault in April of that year at the hands of a man named Edwin Zimmerman.

10TV has covered Zimmerman's long history of sexual violence.

"I decided to kind of go down the wrong roads, you know, [it] put me in a bad place in life," said Matheny.

Matheny reported the assault, but didn't hear back on her case until 2021.

"What was that moment like? Because you've been waiting a long time just for that," asked 10 Investigates Reporter Rochelle Alleyne.

"I cried. I didn't believe it. I wish that they would have listened to me 20 years ago before that," said Matheny.

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