Police are actively investigating the entire episode, and the victim asserts that her virtual ordeal was just as psychologically distressing as if it had occurred in the physical world.
From The Daily Mail:
Speaking to DailyMail.com, psychotherapist and start-up co-founder Nina Patel said that her attackers may have felt ‘disinhibited’ due to being in a virtual world.
While she does not know the attacker's true identities, all four had male voices - and one even said to her, 'Don’t pretend you didn’t love it' after the attack.
Patel told DailyMail.com that the 'distressing experience' happened just 60 seconds after joining the Meta-owned virtual world - a shared 3D space where avatars often meet random people.
Patel was targeted simply for having a female avatar, an experience she described as 'surreal' and 'horrible.'
‘They relentlessly harassed me and then proceeded to (what can only be described) as the sexual assault of my avatar,' she explained.
'Their behavior was offensive and disturbing.’
I'm sorry, but this woman attempting to equate her trauma to that of real-life rape victims is simply beyond ridiculous.
Without delving into the specifics, it's evident that there's a significant distinction between being violated virtually and experiencing physical harm in the real world.
