The night I was raped: Maryville victim Daisy Coleman tells story Daisy Coleman has written a blog post describing the "dark night" she was raped. There was bottle of clear alcohol they labelled "the b**** cup" I fell into a dark abyss ... they discarded me in the snow I was freezing and sick and bruised, my hair in icy chunks I was called a skank and a liar I saw a girl in a T-shirt which read: Matt 1, Daisy 0. THIS is the story about the night everything changed. My whole life since ... has been a long, reckless winter. So Daisy Coleman, one of the Maryville rape victims begins her account of the night she was drugged, raped and dumped and her story about how an entire town turned on her family. Writing exclusively for xojane, she says she was able to muster the courage to speak out after the Hacktivist group Anonymous came out in her support trending with #justice4daisy and declaring war on the US town of Maryville, Missouri which sided with the 15-year-old's rapist, who is the son of a state politician. The night "everything changed" for Daisy Coleman, she was spending with an old friend, Paige. At the time, she was 13, and I was 14. I was on the varsity cheer squad, a competitive dance team and had a lot of friends. Life, overall, was great. Daisy's older brothers would not have let her go out with a popular senior boy, Matthew Barnett, she had been texting with, so around 1am, she and Paige climbed out the bedroom window. I was texting with a boy that my older brother had warned me about, but I didn't listen. Looking back, I wish I did. But she considered Barnett her older brother's friend, not a romantic interest. "I trusted Matt," she said. Matt picked the girls up and drove them back to his house, where they crept in through a basement window. LEFT: Daisy Coleman, the 15-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by the grandson of a Missouri state politician. RIGHT: Matthew Barnett, grandson of Missouri state Representative Rex Barnett, who is accused with raping 15-year-old Daisy Coleman. In the basement area, there were bedrooms and four of Matt's friends. Matt emerged from one of the bedrooms with a bottle of clear alcohol he wanted me to drink, which they labelled the 'bitch cup'. I drank it. I guess I didn't know how badly it would mess me up. But the boys who gave it to me did. Then it was like I fell into a dark abyss. Daisy remembers it was dark, silent and very cold. She doesn't remember exactly what happened next, except the boys "discarded me in the snow." Waking up, I had to be carried into my mother's bedroom, in total confusion. I was freezing and sick and bruised, my hair in icy chunks weighted against me. Daisy's mother, Melinda, bather her daughter and noticed abrasions and damage to her genital area. We all knew something wasn't right. Something had gone wrong in the night. Melinda Coleman told Daisy she had found her outside, "left for dead" and scratching at the door like a dog. She was very weak: "I could have died in the below freezing temperatures." Mrs Coleman took her to hospital, where she underwent tests. It was only much later she found out her friend had also been raped. Life in Maryville after that night changed for the entire Coleman family. Main street of Maryville, Missouri. I watched my brother get bullied and my mum lose her job. Ultimately our house burned to the ground. I sat alone in my room, most days, pondering the worth of my life. The cheerleading squad suspended Daisy and people told her she had been "asking for it" and she would "get what was coming." I saw myself as ugly, inside and out. Daisy began self harming, burning and cutting herself, and she bears the scars to this day. Townspeople began bullying her on Facebook and Twitter. I was called a skank and a liar and people encouraged me to kill myself. Twice, I did try to take my own life. One day she went to a dance competition and saw a girl who wearing a homemade T-shirt. It read: "Matt 1, Daisy 0." Despite Matthew Barnett's family's power and influence, and his popularity as a football player, Daisy Coleman always believed her case would come to justice. She "could not believe it" when the charges were dropped. Barnett's mother and father have since come out in support of their son. She now says the case "will live with me forever," but everything had changed since Anonymous became involved. This is a victory, not just for me, but for every girl.