Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Brooke, who asked to be identified by her first name only, said her sexual assault ended when she ran into the streets of Provo, naked, fleeing her attacker. Since the incident, she said, she has grieved alternate realities in which she could have ended the attack. “I could have done something to stop that, or I should have said ‘no’ louder, or I shouldn’t have been there,” Brooke said. “When bad things happen, guilt comes along.” Self-blame is "almost universal" among victims of sexual assault and the product of a natural "defense mechanism" after trauma, said Donna Kelly, a prosecutor and instructor on sex crimes for the Utah Prosecution Council.