I was sexually assaulted by a professor writing me a LOR for grad-school applications. What should I do? I’m a foreign student currently applying to extremely competitive doctoral programs in the US. Recently, one of the professors writing a letter of recommendation sexually assaulted me. I live in a country where things like this, when reported, are usually unpunished and even more difficult for the victim. I’m currently deciding what to do, all while trying to get my applications done and finishing up my last semester of my master's program. To put it bluntly, my life is currently hell.

Severe trauma and everything aside, I’m really trying not to let this derail my academic career. My question is, would it be possible for me to contact the universities that I’m applying to and ask them if I could submit just two instead of the required three letters of recommendation? With some deadlines less than a week away, I’m worried that this professor might write a bad LOR to try to keep me out of academia, or threaten me with it. Most importantly, it’s too late for me to find another professor to write my letter of recommendation at this point in time (unless I can explain the situation to them, but even then, that would be extremely difficult).

However, I’m also wary of spinning what might seem like a sob story to admissions committees, even though this is not my intention at all. I’m not sure how something like this would be viewed in the US. Please, I would appreciate any advice on this matter.
That's really awful, and I'm so sorry someone whose job it is to help you instead put you in this difficult position.  

When you applied for your masters program did you have strong letters from professors at your undergraduate school?  While all things being equal it is better to get letters from people who have interacted with you more recently, having one letter that's only a year or two old should be fine.  Since those professors already wrote you a letter, there's a good chance that they'd be able to update it and resend it easily.  This may be more practical than getting a totally new person on such short notice.  It also seems clearly better than only having two letters.