NATIONAL HEADLINES: The Fight Is Real and Worth It

This page is filled with national updates that remind advocates that the fight is long and arduous against sexual assault/abuse, sex trafficking, domestic violence, child abuse, and hate crimes. It is also a fight that is WORTH IT.

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DNA Finds Rapist and Murderer 40 Years Later

COSBY FOUND GUILTY

CHILD KILLS MAN TO GET AWAY FROM TRAFFICKING; GETS LIFE

USA GYMNASTICS & MICHIGAN STATE DOCTOR SENTENCED

RACHAEL: THE FIRST VOICE

RE: publicly accusing Nassar

“… absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the pain of being the first to go public with my accusations in The Indianapolis Star. I lost my church. I lost my closest friends as a result of advocating for survivors who had been victimized by similar institutional failures in my own community. I lost every shred of privacy.” — Rachael Denhollander

RE: the courtroom

“It felt surreal at first … the pain we shared knit us together instantly. We knew what to do when someone began to weep or shake in court, because each of us had cried those tears before. We knew what to say when a grieving survivor expressed guilt or doubt, because we had experienced that same shame….” — Rachael Denhollander

  • Denhollander’s interview & victim impact statement are also available on CNN.com
    • She discusses those adults in authority whom she first told
    • One in authority said to Larry — after she accused him — “Good luck, I’m on your side.”
  • Denhollander’s Facebook Post Update on Dean of MSU
    • Exposing the Dean’s personnel file and how much MSU was aware of in the years before and during Nassar’s abusive reign
    • The Dean, William Strampel, was arrested this week for collecting nude photographs of students on his computer
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JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, & CONSEQUENCES

“The national crime victimization survey that’s done by the (US) Justice Department annually reports that 310 out of every 1,000 assaults are reported to the police, which means that two out of three go unreported. To the voices of everyone that report, keep your voice up.” — Judge Rosemarie Aquilina

It is my honor to sentence you.” — Judge Rosemarie Aquilina

“The breadth and ripple of this defendant’s abuse and destruction is nearly infinite. …it spans the state of Michigan and reaches club and elite training gyms, collegiate athletics and even the United States and international Olympic communities. ….we know his access to children and young women and his abuse did not end until an investigative news report and one brave woman came public to stop him.” — Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis

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THE ARMY OF SURVIVORS

“Victims of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor…revealed themselves to be powerful survivors who refused to be victims any longer.”


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THE STANFORD RAPIST APPEALS HIS CONVICTION

“To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.” — Emily Doe


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THIRTEEN TURPIN CHILDREN IMPRISONED & TORTURED BY THEIR PARENTS