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For Rape Victims, it's still like the Old West

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Nancy Williams, a veteran staffer of a women’s crisis center, has written a novel about a survivor of rape in the Old West. "According to the U.S. Justice Department, more than 20 percent of all women today report they’ve been sexually assaulted at least once in their lives, while only one in 10 rapes is ever actually reported to law enforcement.” Nancy talks with Joyce about the difficulties in reporting and prosecuting rape today, and the cost to the survivor of pursuing or not pursuing the case.

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