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Citing news reports of the Peace Corps’ poor treatment of victims of sexual assault, as well as steps the organization has committed to implementing to improve its response, members of Congress last week introduced the Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) with Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Sam...
It's Gone...
It was something I never knew I had
I feel kind of shaky and nervous in a good way to finally say something about it. I think that I prolonged this moment for so long because I felt that if people knew it would make it real.....but that was my problem......it was real......it did happen and I survived it.
There have been two instances in my life one of molestation and one rape.
I will first tell my story of when I was molested at the age of 8 or 9, it’s kind of fuzzy. I remember my mom and stepdad were going to get married and he was my best friend my stepdad. I loved him so much that I would always stay the night at his house he lived with my step grandpa and some cousins and his younger brother my step uncle. I remember that my stepdad moved into our house and we all shared a room my mom, dad, brothers and I so it was always crowded. I really wanted to stay the night at my step grandpa’s house with my cousin Cristina and my dad’s younger brother my Uncle Jimmy.
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