Jim and Susie Rapson, a couple in Australia, experienced the worst day of their lives when their 25-year-old Son Corey was killed in a car accident seven years ago. His then-girlfriend was behind the wheel, and the woman who crashed into him, Angela Wilkes, crossed over six lanes of traffic before hitting him head-on, at speed.

Corey was an incredibly talented tennis player, and the couple was devastated. Susie says there’s not a single day since when her son doesn’t cross her mind. Wilkes faced criminal charges of dangerous driving

“I wake up every morning thinking about him, and I go to bed every night thinking about him,” she told A Current Affair.

Losing a child so suddenly wasn’t an easy nightmare to wake up from, and the nightmare continued when Wilkes decided to reverse her plea from guilty to not guilty. She claims she fainted at the wheel and took the Rapsons to court a year later.

The courts took her side and dropped the case without a trial – leaving the Rapsons to defend themselves.

“Somehow we became the bad guys,” Jim said. “We’ve spent more time in court than the driver, to be honest.”

The Rapsons don’t believe she fainted

Susie says she doesn’t believe Wilkes fainted.

“I feel like she can’t faint and then drive across six lanes of traffic in a straight line while Corey was sitting there doing nothing,” she said.

After the dust settled, Wilkes took the Rapsons to court a second time with a personal intervention order against them.

“She was seeking to keep us quiet ‘for her own safety,’ but we don’t even live [near her], and we’ve only ever met her in court. We’re not violent people,” said Susie.

So to court they went

Part of Wilkes’ court order demanded that the Rapsons, stop posting to the dedicated Instagram page they created to honor Corey’s memory. It also demanded they not publicly speak about Wilkes or the accident for a year.

“I’ve never even spoken to this individual, I’ve never even met her, so we were really confused by the whole thing,” said Jim.

Now that Wilkes’ order expired, the Rapsons asked a prosecutor to evaluate the case, as her claim of fainting and the evidence didn’t add up. Until then, the couple doesn’t feel as though the justice system will be of much help.

“I don’t feel like they’re here to help victims, they’re actually there to help the offender,” said Susie.