Salina did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Times. That friend, who regularly attended Burger Records shows with Redd, corroborated Redd’s story to The Times in a phone interview. She did tell one of her close friends about her sexual encounters with Salina. “For years, many years, I didn’t really talk to anyone about it - I felt really ashamed - I felt like it was my fault for engaging with him in the first place.” “I felt confused and violated,” she says, adding that it took time, reflection and therapy to come to terms with what happened to her in 2013. (The age of consent in California is 18.)Ī few days later, they again had sex outside of a house show in Pomona, she says.

He told her to meet him at the far corner of the parking lot at the Burger Records store in Fullerton, she says, then instructed her to drive a few blocks away to a darkened neighborhood where she alleges the statutory rape took place. Three years later, when Redd was 17, she says Phil Salina, the then-29-year-old singer of the Portland-based goth-pop duo Love Cop, had sex with her in the back seat of her car. The concerts, featuring contemporary garage and punk bands, were often all-ages, and a swell of excited teenage girls would be in attendance. Casey Redd was 14 when she began going to shows put on by popular indie-rock label Burger Records.

The Girl Who Never Was by Jan Alexander