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Earlier this week I wrote about Lara Logan, the reporter who was sexually assaulted by a crowd while covering the uprising in Cairo. Now Peace Corps volunteers have stepped forward with stories of rape.
From New York Times:
Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and “helping the world.†She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized in an alley by a knife-wielding gang.
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