Juliana tells me that each time she tried to interrupt up with Greliak, he would persuade her to provide him one other likelihood. “He was a master manipulator,” she explains. “I would block him. He would get another number. He would show up at my house. It was pretty much harassment to the point where he isolated me from my friends.”
Finally, in December 2019, Greliak moved in with Juliana. Whereas she hoped letting him transfer in would calm their relationship, issues obtained dramatically worse.
“He convinced me to record us having consensual sex, which I was completely against,” she says. However he continued to insist. Someday, he advised filming it on Juliana’s laptop so nobody else may entry it. She reluctantly agreed. He additionally recorded a video of Juliana after giving her “a huge amount” of ketamine. “I didn’t even know what ketamine was at the time,” she displays.
“Within the video, he says: ‘You are in a state the place somebody may rob you or rape you and also you would not even know,’” Juliana tells me. “He thought it was funny to ‘torture’ me by telling me to wake up as I was late for a meeting – I would wake up terrified and he laughed saying, ‘I found the things your body is afraid of’.
“The next morning, he recorded himself assaulting me; then he recorded himself waking me up and showing me the video to see my reaction,” says Juliana. She had no memory of the assault – largely due to the ketamine in her system and the fact that she was asleep. The video remained on her computer, unwatched.
A month later, Juliana discovered that Greliak had stolen £300 from her PayPal account. This marked a turning point. “It hit me that he wasn’t a good person. I couldn’t trust him,” she says, adding, “abusers operate in a way where they’re very slow in their acts… you can’t notice this until you’re entrapped.”
After that, Juliana kicked Greliak out of her apartment. Later the same night, she says, he messaged her asking for her dad’s mobile number under the guise of wanting to send him a video for his 80th birthday. “That’s when I remembered there was a video,” she says. “I found it on my computer. I was in complete shock. I knew he was blackmailing me. He never even met or spoke with my father. He knew I was very close to him.”
The video was eight minutes long. “I am unconscious in it,” Juliana explains. “I am tied up. You may hear him say within the video, ‘I’m completely raping you while you’re asleep and unconscious and making a video of it as well’.”
Greliak was arrested and charged with sexual assault on the eighth of March 2020, which is his birthday and in addition, as Juliania notes, Worldwide Girls’s Day. “Poetic justice, I guess,” she says.
Juliana’s reduction was fleeting. A month after his arrest, Greliak was bailed. “I’d thought that when he was arrested, I could move on with my life. But when he was bailed, I had to move to another apartment; I didn’t feel safe where I was.”
Greliak was arrested twice for breaching his bail circumstances.
In 2021, in the course of the lead-up to and through Greliak’s trial, Juliana was extremely distressed. Whereas he’d initially been charged with sexual assault by digital penetration, she later found that he’d additionally raped her.
“I used to be making ready to write down my sufferer’s private assertion and was reviewing all of the movies. In one of many movies, he admitted to raping me in addition to the sexual assault. He laughed as he described how I awakened throughout it. Within the video, he seems for the video of the rape to play it to me however realises he should’ve not recorded it. That is once I realised he had, the truth is, raped me, and I despatched the video proof to the police.
