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?
Val Demings: “How can we sit here today--are we serious?--and say, regardless of the physical, emotional, and psychological trauma…”
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Demings questions the disregard for trauma faced by victims of sexual assault.
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