The Ninth Circuit has recognized the impact that the trauma of physical and sexual assault can have on the ability of an asylum applicant to accurately estimate the length of time of certain events in her narrative of persecution. “Ms. Munyuh set forth a reasonable and plausible explanation for the discrepancy between the four-to-five-kilometer estimate in her written declaration and the timeline of her account—namely, that she had been ‘brutally attacked, beaten multiple times, [and] raped within a span of less than about 24 hours.’ It is reasonable and plausible that the trauma caused by multiple physical and sexual assaults would impair Ms. Munyuh’s focus at the time on peripheral matters and therefore on her memory of those matters.”
The full text of Munyuh v. Garland can be found here:
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/08/25/19-72890.pdf