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As a 19-year-old freshman at Southern Illinois University, Sheri Poe was picked up while hitchhiking to work and then held hostage for four hours by a man who violently raped her at gunpoint. When she reported the horrific crime, law enforcement personnel were indifferent—they actually insinuated that she was to blame because she had been hitchhiking—and never brought her assailant to justice.

In an attempt to cope with the trauma and the injustice, along with a slew of health problems she developed as a result of the rape, ...

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