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Val Demings: How can we sit here today--are we serious?--and say, regardless of the physical, emotional, and psychological trauma…

On the recordJuly 13, 2022
How can we sit here today--are we serious?--and say, regardless of the physical, emotional, and psychological trauma, the women and girls who survive these vicious attacks, that does not matter?
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Val Demings
Democratic · Florida

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Demings questions the disregard for trauma faced by victims of sexual assault.

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