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View submission: The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle
When she was 12-years-old Taylor was asked by a church member why she was distressed. She shared that she had been sexually molested repeatedly by her guardian for years. And then in a county that boasted that children were safe the victim became a suspect. Not because there were no supporting facts, but because the police officer chose not to believe her before anyone had been interviewed or testing done. Told she was lying Taylor reiterated that she was not. She has never stopped saying she was not lying.
From the article:
"The way Taylor was treated—as a victim, but also as a suspect—flies in the face of best practices in handling sexual assault investigations. Her case isn’t an isolated one. In a multiyear investigation[1], the Center for Investigative Reporting identified hundreds of similar cases across the country in which police criminalized the very people reporting sexual assault. "
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