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Survivors of childhood sexual assault raise awareness

Survivors of childhood sexual assault raise awareness
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By CHRIS SUAREZ and The Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Associated Press
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - When Fatima M. Smith and two of her friends told parents and police that their cheerleading coach had sexually abused them, they were ostracized by the families of their teammates.
Years later, in high school, that experience - the death threats, name-calling and testifying in a court trial where their coach was acquitted - made her feel like she shouldn’t say anything about the boyfriend who had raped her. ....

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Cycle of Silence

Fatima Smith, an advocate for victims of sexual abuse, remembers something important her mother once told her.
“My mom told me an obnoxious amount of times, ‘if someone, anyone touches you or hurts you, tell me. I don’t care if it’s your father, uncle, just tell me.”
But Smith says that after her cheerleading coach used house keys she forgot in his car to enter her home, then her room where she awoke to him touching her, she “didn’t say anything for almost a year later.”
“I loved cheerleading. I loved my coach. This bad thing happened,” she recalls. “But I didn’t know if I really wanted to say anything.” ....

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