In the past few months, over 60 women have come forward to share testimonies and corroborate stories of rape, sexual harassment, blackmail, revenge porn and coerced drug use by Gregory “Ty” Parra. These accounts date back to 2011, during Ty’s high school years, and continue up to present day. The following testimonies detail a pattern of abuse and violence that has continuously been swept under the rug by the police and excused/maliciously defended by administrators, friends and family around Ty. As these survivors come forward to testify, we must support them as they share their stories, patriarchal violence must not be kept in the dark or remain a bitter secret to be kept by survivors. The shame of sexual violence must switch sides. Ty Parra has terrorized central Texas for too long and the legal system has protected him. Now survivors are stepping forward.
Kristin, a survivor of a separate rape during her undergraduate studies at Baylor in 2014, has been gathering evidence and accompanying survivors to share their testimonies at the special victim’s unit In San Antonio. One of Ty’s victims was a San Antonio resident and personal friend of Kristin’s who committed suicide in 2020. Prior to her passing, her friend released several tweets exposing the trauma inflicted upon her by Ty and his circle of friends in 2012, directly implicating him and his actions as to part of the reasons that drove her to suicide. Kristen has been working with survivors as they seek justice and break the silence around sexual abuse. She has received verbal and written testimonies from both personal friends and slews of strangers who have reached out online about the piece of shit, Ty Parra. Some of these testimonies corroborate the experiences of others, while others are new harrowing accounts of this fucking asshole’s decade long pattern of abuse.
This is the testimony of a survivor who came forward about sexual assault and rape she experienced from Ty when they were teenagers in 2011. She describes a pattern of coercion and intimidation that exemplify this sicko’s MO.
In 2014, two testimonies place Ty Parra raping a woman during a stint in Rehab. There was no investigation into the assault, as rehab administrators used their being in rehab as an excuse to discredit the victim and dismiss their accounts. More recently, a woman who was also in rehab with Parra shared that he sexually harassed her after they were released, sending her unsolicited, explicit images. In the years prior to rehab, there are at least two testimonies stating that Ty coerced a victim into doing heroin with him, locking her in a room with him while they did it together, leading to an addiction that caused her to overdose in 2014.
Testimonies describe Ty Parra forcing women into rooms while they are blackout drunk or high.
During a party at “Dead Folk Festival” in 2017, he did this to a girl at Frost ranch, barricading her in a room with furniture and assaulting her. The girl was attending the music festival and sitting at the pool when Ty Parra threw her over his shoulder and took her into the main house. Men in the main house reportedly egged Ty on and laughed as they saw him walk into the room with her slung over his shoulder. Once he ended the sexual assault, he went on to inject heroin into himself as the girl was crying and reeling from the sexual violence just inflicted upon her. She eventually escaped from the room, and is reported to have fled from the house, screaming.
These testimonies carry on into 2026. He is still sexually harassing women, sending explicit messages and calling past victims with a fake phone number, using the terror that he caused to try and coerce them once again.
Throughout all of these years of causing harm, Ty has received the protection and excusal of his actions from his friends and family (some of his friends being rapists themselves, fraternity style violence). He has shared revenge porn of survivors who would speak up about their abuse, utilizing the patriarchal high ground and physical intimidation to socially isolate and shame them to silence. If shaming tactics didn’t work, Ty would threaten the victims through fake online accounts- stalking them to intimidate them into silence, as noted in his criminal police record. He was charged with threatening one of his victims’ families following her speaking out against his sexual violence. Kristin has attempted to reach out to Ty’s sister who she knew from high school, in order to talk to her about the harm that Ty has been causing. Her sister disturbingly laughed at the testimonies and stated that she wouldn’t believe anything until “proven in a court of law”.
Stories like these are all too common across the country. However, Texas ranks as the highest state in the country for reports of rape and sexual assault, with over 30,000 cases reported in the year 2023. In that same year, they arrested and/or charged in 20% of reports and only 10% of adult cases led to any conviction, a lousy attempt at pretending they care. These numbers only encompass those cases that are reported, and with less than 10% of people who have suffered from sexual assault actually reporting it to authorities, they vastly underestimate its prevalence in our society. This underreporting is due to an understanding that the legal channels will rarely actually do anything about it, on the one hand, and to the hush-hush nature that society treats these assaults, on the other.
This violence is protected all the way up to the Supreme Court. As the extreme abortion ban in Texas was being passed in 2022 after the Dobb‘s decision came out, a ban that made no exceptions for cases of rape and sexual assault, Governor Greg Abbot claimed that there was no need for these exceptions because they would simply imprison any rapists. This disgustingly lie would be laughable if the truth wasn‘t as heinous as it is. In the first 18 months after the ban, there have been 29000 rape related pregnancies in Texas, accounting for 45% of all cases across the 14 states with total abortion bans.
Systemically, the justice system as a whole and police officers do not take these cases seriously, evidenced by sweetheart deals and interpersonal isolation of survivors of sexual assault when they come forward. They mock victims, fail to properly record testimonies, and leave rape kits to collect dust in hospitals, slowing down or outright preventing the collection of evidence they require to have to do anything about it. preventing any form of justice to take place. They bring charges against people protecting themselves from their abusers, like in the case of Keisha Golden and Kam in NYC,’s cases, choosing to defend abusers from punishment and sending a clear signal to those who try to defend themselves. Outside of the courts, survivors face isolation for speaking out, a form of punishment from the pervasive rape culture that teaches everyone to doubt and dismiss them and make excuses for the rape and harassment they endured.
As more survivors courageously come forward and expose rapists, it is our responsibility to stand with them against this backwards legal system and patriarchal society. In order for all sexual violence to end, we must punish rapists for their crimes, raising these whispers of cases into screams of righteous anger. Whether that is through pressuring the courts to lock them up (they rarely do) or unleashing the collective power of survivors by exposing them and holding them accountable outside of the court system.
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