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>> celeste only has vague wrecks of what happened later that night, after an onduty officer entered her barracks to check on her. >> he looked like my sexual assaulter. he walked up to me. i freaked out and i guess i grabbed his neck. i started yelling, i am being sexually assaulted. they told me to calm down but i didn't calm down. >> the next morning celeste woke up in the psychiatric hospital. she says no one talked about what happened the night before. a month later, she attempted suicide again. this time, the marine corps locked her up in a military jail own as the brig. celeste was charg...

Attention, it wasn't long after the marines offered her a plea deal. >> the prosecutor was trying to charge me for assaults for the ptsd incident. and they wanted me to plead guilty. and i told them, i'm not guilty. that's when me and my lawyer, we worked out this plea deal with the prosecutor to get me discharged completely. >> in a letter to the u.s. marine corps, a military advocate cited a pattern of misconduct as reason for celeste's discharge noting her chain of command found her to be a below average marine who only did work when instructed. for this, they let celeste go with a less tha...

Celeste decided to unrestrict the report of her attack. >> i wrote a letter to my command. it detailed everything, what happened that night, how i was feeling, how depressed i was. and that's when he called me in and we talked about it. he tried to be positive, but then in another letter i mentioned something about my superior, that he was also doing misconduct. and he wasn't on my side anymore. >> there is an immense amount of rur to report to the chain of command, to your boss, to say, i was sexually assaulted. but once that report is made and investigated, that investigation is turned over ...

Well-being. i have developed anger, rebe rebellion, anxiety and other problems from military sexual assault. that's depressing because as i go through all this stuff i am watching this young woman who had so much promise and ambition start to self-destruct. one month into lockup with no end in sight, celeste asked a friend to post her story to social media. since vanessa guillen's murder this has become an effective strategy to speak out. >> #, i am vanessa guillen took off like wildfire. >> vanessa opened the door that we have been banging at for years. >> it was -- for the first time, i thin...

You have got to work. it's just a waste of time. >> i first started noticing something was off in mid march. celeste seemed very frustrated. it seemed like night and day. she went from this really really happy active very determined young lady to just very withdrawn, depressed. >> for several months, celeste says she kept this secret from her parents and tried to cope with the trauma of her assault on her own, turning to alcohol to numb the pain. in june, she asked the military to admit her to in-patient rehab. but her request was denied. celeste decided to unrestrict the report of her attack....