Brave Miss World
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In October 1998, eighteen-year-old Linor Abargil was stabbed and raped while working as a model in Milan. Weeks later she was crowned Israel’s first Miss World. Over the course of five years, director Cecilia Peck (Shut Up & Sing) follows Abargil, on a mission to confront the trauma of her past, including a hunt for other victims of the man who raped her, preventing his parole. Abargil, a poised, magnetic and supremely empathic advocate travels from Hollywood to rape crisis centers, American college campuses and the townships of South Africa to share her story and inspire others to confront shame and to heal. Emmy nominated BRAVE MISS WORLD is a call for justice and a startlingly honest portrayal of how personal tragedy can be transformed into a global awareness campaign against sexual violence.
"A riveting documentary. A courageous celebration of survival..."
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Impassioned and inspiring..."
LA Times
"The coming together of two remarkable women, Linor and documentary filmmaker Cecilia Peck."
Amy Goodman Democracy Now
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Main credits
Peck, Cecilia (film director)
Peck, Cecilia (film producer)
Reif, Motty (film producer)
Lessner, Inbal B. (film producer)
Lessner, Inbal B. (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Edited by Inbal B. Lessner; cinematography: Uri Ackerman, Tamara Goldsworthy, Ronan Killeen, Karen Landsberg; original music: Hans Zimmer, Ben Harper, Martin Tillman.
Distributor subjects
Documentary Films; Human Rights; Law & Criminal JusticeKeywords
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(gentle music)
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(keys clacking)
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- I sat in the front and I was a little bit tired,
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and he said, "You can move to the back."
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And we drove for, like, 1 1/2 hours.
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I fell asleep for a bit.
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I woke up, I saw that we are nowhere.
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And then he took out a knife, and he said,
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"Take off your clothes."
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(tense music)
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The moment that it's happening,
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your soul just, it's not there.
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It's just a body.
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- And Miss World 1998 is
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Miss Israel!
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(audience applauding) (triumphant music)
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- [Reporter] As crowds of Israeli fans
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welcomed the new Miss World,
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no one knew of her ordeal just two months earlier.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- You know, I think that this is so much
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what she has wanted, to come home.
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And the tears are of joy.
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(dramatic music) (camera clicking)
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- I was raped in Milan, Italy when I was 18 years old
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just seven weeks before the Miss World contest.
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I'm launching a website.
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I hope that survivors of rape worldwide
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would use the website as a place to share their accounts
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of pain and healing.
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We cannot stay silent.
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(gentle music)
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There is someone here today who gave me the courage
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to speak out when I was raped.
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It was my mother.
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She didn't tell me to keep quiet.
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She knew that the fault was his, not mine.
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Thank you so much, Mom.
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I wish all victims of rape would have
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the same kind of support that you gave me.
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(tense music)
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The website has been up for a week,
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and there are 691 emails.
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(jet engine roaring)
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(keys clacking)
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(people chattering)
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- I'm honored to now present to you Linor Abargil,
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a heroine in her native country
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whose strength, compassion, and conviction
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will galvanize communities across the world
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to speak out against rape.
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(audience applauding)
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- Good afternoon to everyone here. (chuckles)
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I never wanted to be in pageants,
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but it was a way to travel.
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I entered the Miss Israel competition at the last moment.
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The prize was a trip to Thailand and a new car.
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(audience applauding) - Linor Abargil!
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(upbeat music)
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- I came from a small town.
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A trip and a new car was a big deal.
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Well, after I won Miss Israel, I was sent to Milan, Italy,
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but after two weeks, I felt out of place,
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and I missed my family.
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The modeling agency put me in touch
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with an Israeli agent in Milan named Shlomo Nur.
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I met with him and asked him to get me a flight home
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as soon as possible.
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He finally got me a night flight from Rome,
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and he was willing to drive me there.
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He took a secluded road,
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telling me that avoiding the freeway would save me the toll.
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Those were the longest hours of my life.
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Sorry.
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Rape is so isolating
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because even if you tell people what happened,
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they are afraid to mention it,
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so you're surrounded by silence.
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(tense music)
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- You made me remember something from my childhood
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that I don't think I can say,
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but I'm gonna think about it differently.
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- Wow, I hope.
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This is what I'm trying to do.
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- Thank you.
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- Thank you. - You take care.
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(gentle music)
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- [Linor] I didn't expect today to be so emotional,
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but it was incredible how people reacted afterwards.
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We all have the same pain no matter where you're from.
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- I wasn't in Cleveland, but I know when she spoke,
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she began to cry and she couldn't,
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but when my daughter insists on something,
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if you can't against her, you hug her and go with her.
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This is the way.
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And if not, you lose your child.
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(jet engine roaring) (tense music)
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(keyboard clacking)
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- I didn't feel that you wanted to speak about it with me.
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I didn't feel you were ready.
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It's so sensitive.
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I can't come to you and tell you,
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"I want to speak with you about the rape."
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- [Linor] Why?
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- Because it's, I feel that it has to come from you.
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- You were scared.
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- Maybe, but I gave you the feeling
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that if you want, whenever, to speak about it, I'm here.
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But most of the day,
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you have been crying at your room alone.
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It's difficult.
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- Yeah. - When I was alone,
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I called 1212.
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- [Linor] The Rape Center.
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- Rape Center, yes.
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I said, "I am a mother, my daughter was raped,
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"and I can't,
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"I can't speak with anyone about it."
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And they encourage me, they speak with me--
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- But you don't think
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that you should have talked to Daddy about it?
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- The first time I saw him crying,
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but crying, you know, like a child,
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it was when you were raped.
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Even when his father died,
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I don't remember he cried like this.
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It's crazy.
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(tense music) (jet engine roaring)
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(keys clacking)
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- [Linor] I'm here in New York for a week.
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So many women have written to me through the website.
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A lot of them never told anyone.
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I need to find a way to help them speak up,
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so they can start to heal.
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I think you're the first girl that really wrote the site.
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- I went to get a bowl of cereal for dinner.
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And as I was eating my cereal,
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this hand came around from behind me.
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My name is Jennifer, and I was raped when I was 23.
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My first moment was shame and shock and fear.
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- My family doesn't know.
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- [Linor] Why?
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- My mom, I'm afraid
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that she'll look at me and be disappointed
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because so many times when I was younger, she'd say,
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"Oh, just be careful because you're gonna get raped."
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It will end up happening, you know.
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Your daughter is out drinking, is drugged, and then raped,
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and, you know, I feel
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like that's every mother's worst nightmare.
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- Isn't it more painful not to talk about it,
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act like it never happened?
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- I don't know.
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I'm scared to bring it up.
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- There is nothing to be scared of
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because the worst thing has already happened.
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Let's put it this way.
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(both laughing))
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- [Julie] it's hard.
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- I believe you.
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It's the harder thing to do, I know, to speak,
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but then, it's like the best pill.
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It heals you.
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It's much worse when you don't.
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I think I can be a really good pusher.
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I'm not gonna tell you, "Oh, I'm so sorry for you.
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"It's so sad," okay, I can tell you that,
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but it's not gonna help you recover.
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I mean, you have your friends for that,
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you have your family, hopefully, for that,
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to hug you all day and tell you how poor and weak you are.
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It's not the point.
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You need to heal yourself,
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and we need to push each other to do it.
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No mercy.
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- [Reporter] in Israel, the trial has begun
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in the case of a man accused of raping a model
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just six weeks before she won the Miss World beauty pageant.
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Shlomo Nur could face up to 56 years in prison
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if convicted of abduction, rape, and sodomy.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Translator] What have I got to be sorry for?
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I only regret believing in the state of Israel,
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but her crown has blinded you all.
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- So, you think Linor Abargil made this up
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Just to further her career?
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- Exactly, ma'am.
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And Miss World she win because this story.
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And everybody know about it.
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- So, you will never admit to this crime?
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- No, ma'am.
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And I can't believe it, and I will go to fight.
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(Linor sighs)
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- [Interviewer] Will you tell us what happened?
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- The girl from the Rape Crisis Center
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called and told me that Nur is up for parole
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and that he got to leave the jail, I guess, for some days,
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which is, I think, horrible.
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He shouldn't have even one vacation.
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(tense music)
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- [Interviewer] And how does that feel?
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- I don't feel like doing this right now.
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- [Interviewer] Okay, is there anything else you'd.
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(speaking foreign language)
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- [Linor] No, don't shoot me, please.
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(keys clacking)
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(sullen music)
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- I had bruises, like, on my knee, and they said,
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"If you had had injuries elsewhere, like on your face,
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{it might have been more compelling,
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"but there's just no case, we can't press charges."
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So, I just felt so defeated.
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- The police felt that I wasn't
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holding up my end of the bargain
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because I'm blind and I couldn't describe the rapist.
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- When I went to the DA,
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it was the first time I met with her, and I went in,
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she sat down, and she said
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that she thought that he was cute, and
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she tried to convince me
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that I had just had a weak moment and that it was my fault.
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- He got one year in jail.
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- [Linor] oh, my God.
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- And I never understood that
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because he had done it to me for nine years.
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It's so unfair that he's out there probably still doing it.
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(tense music)
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- [Linor] Nur's prison sentence is much too short,
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but it's a lot more than most other victims get.
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What does it take to see justice?
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- When Nur Shlomo decided to visit his family in Israel,
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he had no way of knowing Linor Abargil
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had filed charges against him,
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not only in Italy, but here as well.
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When he arrived here at Ben Gurion airport,
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police were waiting for him.
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He was arrested and charged
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with kidnapping and raping the teenage beauty queen.
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- [Linor] I think people are surprised
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to see me in law school,
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but it's something I always wanted to do.
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I just finished high school.
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I want to be a lawyer for criminal cases,
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and I hope my dream will come true.
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- Thanks a lot, Linor, thank you very, very much.
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Thank you.
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(audience applauding)
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- When she was born, she was so fat.
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(Linor laughs)
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And when people asked me, "How old is she?"
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I said, "She's already one year,"
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and she was only four months because she was fat and nice,
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and here it was so red, you know?
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Very beautiful child.
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And she was very good at school.
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But I was always behind, you know, because I'm a teacher,
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I can't be not a teacher.
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It's in my blood. (laughs)
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- {Linor] Behind, in the center and in the sides,
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you were everywhere. (speaking foreign language)
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(jet engine roaring)
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(keys clacking)
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- [Reporter] Interpol says South Africa
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is the world's rape capital.
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In fact, a woman born in South Africa
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is more likely to be raped than educated.
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A recent police study estimates
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that only one in 36 rape cases are reported.
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(gentle music)
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(keyboard clacking) - Hi!
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- [Woman] Do you want to meet Linor?
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- What's your name?
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- Sharon.
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I was raped by the person that I know,
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and he was related to my aunt.
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- [Linor] How old are you?
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- I'm 12.
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- Oh, my God.
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- They want to spread HIV and AIDS.
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When they rape a little young girl, they think, "You know,
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"that girl is still a virgin,
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"I'm gonna spread that disease to her,
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"and I'm gonna get cured."
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- I'm so proud of you.
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You don't know how much.
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And I know I am leaving here knowing
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that you're gonna help also other kids.
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- Thank you for listening to our stories.
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- Thank you for sharing. - Yeah, not many people
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would take the time to come
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- Seriously. - and listen to some kids
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who've been raped. - No one wants
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to listen to us.
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It's like people feel like, "Ah, she just wants attention.
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"can you just give her?
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- "Even though she cries, she wants attention."
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- Yeah.
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- And you know what you say
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when they tell you you want attention?
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You tell them, "Yes."
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(girls laughing)
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True?
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- Yeah. - "This is what I want.
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"And if you don't give it to me, I'll cry louder."
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(girls laughing)
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Come.
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(singing in foreign language)
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(tense music)
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They say that every three minutes
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a girl is being raped here,
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so there is a lot of work to do in South Africa.
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- I had just parked my car outside my house.
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I had just arrived home. - Inside your house?
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- Yeah, I didn't have a garage,
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so I had to park on the street.
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So, they just opened my door.
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They had a knife.
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They put the knife at my throat and said to me,
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"Move over or else we'll kill you."
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They took me out to, like, a bushy,
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remote area just outside the city.
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- [Linor] With your car?
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- Yeah, with my car.
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There was no one to shout for help.
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I just thought, "Don't make them upset,"
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and I just put my hands on the ceiling of the car,
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so I didn't have to touch them.
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And I tried, while they both raped me,
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to think of other things.
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I mean, what do you say?
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I remember just saying to them, "Please don't kill me."
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- [Linor] Yeah.
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- And he just said, "Sorry."
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They dragged me out of the car
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and stabbed me in my abdomen about 35, 36 times.
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- [Linor] Oh, my god.
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- While that was happening,
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I think it must have just been a reflex reaction,
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my leg kind of gave a twitch,
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and he realized I was still alive.
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So, he took his knife, and he cut my throat.
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I remember even hearing one of them say to the other,
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"Is she dead?"
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And the other one said, "No one can live through that."
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And then they got in my car and drove off.
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What happened, they'd cut my neck,
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amazingly missing the jugular vein here
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by less than millimeters, but they'd cut this muscle.
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And when I stood up, without this muscle,
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I couldn't control my head,
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and my head flopped right back onto my back.
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(Linor gasps) Yes, I know.
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I just kind of put my hand to the back of my head,
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and I literally held my head on and everything else in.
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I don't know how long it took me,
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I don't know how many times I fell,
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I don't remember most of that journey,
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but yeah, made it to the road.
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Although I believe I was one of the first in South Africa
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to speak so openly,
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it wasn't something that I did consciously.
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I just did it.
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And so, I became this icon without intending to be.
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So, what I say gets quoted, and same with you.
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So, it is up to us because we're the only ones
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who can explain what it feels like.
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We're the only ones to let people
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who've never experienced it know that it's with you
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for the rest of your life, that it's not just sex.
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How would they know otherwise?
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- For me, like, most of the girls that I meet,
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I have to give more than I get, but with you,
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I feel like I got some.
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Well, thank you 'cause it's lovely for me,
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and to know that there's special people out there like you
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who believe in making the difference too and don't give up.
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(gentle music)
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(keys clacking)
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- I remember very well when that crown was put on your head.
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You were so beautiful.
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You are still beautiful.
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My question to you is,
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did you forgive that guy who raped you?
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- I felt sorry for the guy.
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(audience murmurs)
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I felt sorry, not sorry in a way that I think,
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not in that way.
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I felt sorry for people that have to live this way,
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in hurting other people, they feel better with their life.
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- I'm also a survivor, a rape survivor.
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I mean, I have a daughter of eight months old.
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The question is, you know, how do I protect my daughter?
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I couldn't protect myself.
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And I really have to salute you
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from a sister to another sister, you know.
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And I would like to give you a hug.
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- Yeah!
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(audience applauding)
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(singing in foreign language)
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South African women were really amazing.
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They were telling these horrible stories,
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but then, at the same time, they were so happy
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and so, like, full of life and so spiritual.
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I looked at them, I was like, "What do they want from me?
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"I can take so much from them."
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(keys clacking)
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(dog barks)
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I always believed that everything is from God,
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but I didn't understand.
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So, I started studying, studying the Kabbalah
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and studying the Bible.
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I accepted an invitation to speak
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at a university in the States.
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- [Reporter] According to the most recent statistics,
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one in five college women
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will be the victim of rape or attempted rape,
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and only 12% of those women report it.
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- [Men] No means yes, yes means anal!
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No means yes, yes means anal!
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- Yale University.
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The pledges of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
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were shouting this stuff in an area of campus
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where freshmen women live.
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Imagine being an 18-year-old young woman in a new place
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hearing a gang of young men moving around in the dark
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chanting about rape in an area that's supposed to be
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a safe home away from home.
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(jet engine roars)
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- Princeton does better
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than some other schools about reporting,
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but universities look the other way.
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It's not in their interest to disclose cases
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of rape and assault,
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even if it means it's not safe on campus.
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I want to shout out to anyone who wants to listen
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that rape can happen to anyone.
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I was 18.
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- [Motty] Princeton University.
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- Even if you were drinking,
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even if you went to his room or somewhere in private,
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if you don't want to do it, it's sexual assault.
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The university has asked me
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not to meet with students on campus,
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but I'm going to be in the Nassau Inn,
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and if anyone would like to speak to me
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on or off the record,
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I would be very happy to meet with you.
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- [Blonde Woman] I knew this guy.
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He was on a varsity sports team,
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and he came over and locked the door,
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just turned off the lights,
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and I just kind of, like, froze after a while,
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and let him do whatever.
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- [Linor] Did you file a report?
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- [Blonde Woman] No, I didn't.
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They said that if I wanted to, I could press charges,
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but that it would probably be more painful for me
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than it would be for him.
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- [Linor] Do you think it's the right way to go?
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- I think that I would be seen as,
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like, going against the wishes of the school
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and of the culture of Princeton.
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- Like they really care about their students
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after they leave and don't pay them money anymore.
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- [Blonde Woman] Well, I think, I mean, yeah,
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I guess I have a different take on that
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because I have a lot of family members who went to Princeton
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and it's very much considered, like, a family thing.
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I was really scared to do that,
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but I think it's really important
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to share that this kind of thing happens on campus.
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(solemn music)
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- I think there is a crisis
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on college campuses all around the States.
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I heard from a student in Santa Barbara
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who got raped by a soccer player.
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She did press charges against him,
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but no one supported her.
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I guess everyone in Santa Barbara were turned against her.
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What's going on at these colleges?
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- [Reporter] Eric Frimpong was focused
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on his education and his sport according to his friends,
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but authorities say Frimpong's focus last February
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was on a woman they say he raped on the beach in Isla Vista.
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- [Reporter] Frimpong, pictured here
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wearing jersey number 12, is a member
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of the Men's National Champion Soccer team.
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- My name is Tricia, and I was raped when I was 19.
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- [Linor] and this is a guy you knew before?
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- I met him an hour before, just on the street,
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just walking between parties.
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He said, "Oh, come back to my house,
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"and we'll play some drinking games."
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And that didn't sound unusual.
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So, yeah, I said, "Sure."
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- Okay. - So, after the game,
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we walked to the beach,
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and the next thing I remember very clearly
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is being thrown to the ground, and he was on top of me,
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and he started choking me.
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I was just helpless.
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100% couldn't move.
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- I had never heard that tone in her voice
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when she called me to pick her up.
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She had sand all over her, her bruises were coming out.
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I've never been that scared before, ever, in my life.
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- And so, I picked him out of the lineup,
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and they told me who he was.
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And they said, "Just so you know, he is a soccer player,
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"so this might not be quiet."
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The student who raped me turned out to be a big soccer star
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at the university that I go to.
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So, nobody wanted to believe my side of the story.
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They just loved him.
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- [Linor] How much time it took you to put him in prison?
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- Year and a half.
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- [Linor] How much did he get?
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- Six years.
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- [Munni] It was all over campus.
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Everyone was talking about it every minute of the day.
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- Well, it was like the front news story
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of the school newspaper, a lot.
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- And the Santa Barbara newspaper.
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- Yeah.
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You're so lucky that you have each other, really.
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- We're lucky.
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- [Munni] I love you.
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(Linor laughs)
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Bye.
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- My friends and my parents, if I wouldn't share with them,
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they wouldn't be able to help me
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or to just give me what I need,
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which is love and just sometimes just a hug or, you know?
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And saying that, "I'm there for you, don't worry."
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- [Group] Shabbat Shalom!
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- Shabbat Shalom.
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(dog barking)
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Me and my husband are not very religious,
00:27:29.244 --> 00:27:34.077
but when Linor is here, we make the efforts to respect her.
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One day, I come home, and I see all my cupboards empty.
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Linor took all my dishes to the mikveh to make them kosher.
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A few dishes she can't make kosher.
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She has to throw them to the garbage.
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I said, "Okay, we'll buy new ones."
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- The guy that was her boyfriend,
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he didn't know how to handle the situation.
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It was very important for me to make her feel,
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first of all, secure with a man,
00:29:23.834 --> 00:29:26.424
and although that, you know, I'm gay,
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I wanted to let you feel as a woman again.
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- For a really long time after the rape,
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sex had, was completely detached from love and romance.
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- I couldn't let myself go,
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I couldn't enjoy, I couldn't get pleasure,
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and I was always tense, and eventually, you know,
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it affected my relationship,
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my private relationship with men.
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- I don't like to be touched most ways.
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I have to direct every single move that my husband makes
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in order for me to feel comfortable with him.
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(tense music)
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- He was playing basketball in Israel.
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He was very good.
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I never watched basketball.
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I didn't know what I want.
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I was searching for that day, I mean,
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probably not in the right place.
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By the Jewish law, when you get married
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to somebody that's not Jewish,
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you didn't get married, you're not married.
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So, I didn't.
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(jet engine roars)
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(keys clacking)
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I'm traveling on my own this time.
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Thank you for supporting us and the Teddy Bear Clinic.
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What I loved about these girls, very young girls,
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I have to say, that they weren't ashamed
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to say what happened to them.
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We need to speak out.
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This is the only way.
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My website is over 30,000 visitors.
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I've been getting emails from every country
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you can think of.
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I'm so proud of everyone who posted their stories.
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I know it's not easy.
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I found another activist here in L.A. who is also a victim.
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Hi! - Hello, Lino, how are you?
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- How are you? - It's nice to meet you.
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My name is Jim, and I was sexually victimized when I was 15.
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- Last Friday, we opened the floodgates
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on the shame millions of men
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have been living with for years.
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I was so shocked to learn
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that one out of six men in this country
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have been sexually abused.
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- He was the director of the CYO camp.
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I looked up to him because I thought he was a man's man.
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He came into my room, and he said, "Don't worry."
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And I, you know, hid my head under the pillow
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and I tried to not be there.
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I became an FBI profiler and specialized in the field
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of child sexual victimization.
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Grooming is the methodology
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that they get access and control and authority over children
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and then get the kids not to disclose
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and also to keep coming back.
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One of the best methods is to get a child
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to do something they know is wrong.
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So, he let me drive without a license,
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he gave me beer when I was underage,
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and he gave me porno magazines to look at.
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And I knew all three of those things
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my parents did not allow me to do.
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So, it's like a control mechanism.
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In the thing that happened to you,
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did you know this person beforehand?
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- Yeah, I knew him only for three days.
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So, for me, it wasn't like, really, I knew him.
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I trusted him because I was very young and innocent.
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- Was he in a position of authority or--
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- A travel agent.
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- And he took advantage of that position.
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- Exactly, exactly.
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(tense music)
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A celebrity fashion designer had been accused
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of assaulting dozens of young aspiring models
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all over the country.
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- [Announcer] Anand Jon!
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- [Linor] He was being sentenced while I was in L.A.,
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so I went to the courthouse to give support to the victims.
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- What new evidence do you have?
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- There is a videotape of me having consensual sex
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with the alleged rape victim.
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And it's gone missing.
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- [David] Which alleged rape victim?
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- [Linor] This was the first time I had been to a courtroom
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since my trial more than 10 years ago.
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- And if I made a mistake,
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if I could have checked somebody's ID better,
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I'll accept that.
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Rape?
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Uh-uh, no.
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No, you might as well give me the death penalty.
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It's madness!
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(train whistle blaring)
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That is not what happened.
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She knows it, I know it.
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I passed the lie detector test.
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I know it's not admissible, but when something.
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- [Reporter] Miss World, Linor Abargil,
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took the witness stand for two consecutive days.
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She told the judges, "I'm going through a second rape.
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"I now understand why girls are afraid to report."
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(tense music)
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- Your motion for a new trial is denied.
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(people chattering)
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- [Linor] I realize how hard it is for me to do it.
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Who am I?
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Like, I'm 29 years old, from Israel,
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who was raped like all the other girls I'm talking to.
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And I'm playing like a big mama, which I'm not, you know?
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And trying to save the world, which I can't.
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I see what I'm going through, like, at night,
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it's getting inside my body, you know,
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to see all the pain of these girls.
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- Linor called me for an emergency session,
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so I accommodated her pretty late at night.
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She was having symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
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she didn't have for a long time,
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such as inability to sleep, nightmares, flashbacks.
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- See what's happening to you.
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You have, you know,
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people pass so many crises in their life.
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Why to make another one if you can choose not to do it?
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(tense music)
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- I cannot go with all this weight on my shoulders.
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(train whistle blaring)
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I feel like I'm drowning.
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Right now, I cannot continue doing that.
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(upbeat music)
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- When she start with the religious,
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it was very, very, very difficult to me and my husband.
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It's like losing your child.
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I couldn't accept it,
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especially when she change her clothes.
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But many, many victims become anorexic,
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physical problem, spiritual problem,
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so if it make her happy, we're happy.
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It's her decision.
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- I was not the same.
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I was going out drinking
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just to suppress and numb everything.
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- I'd been keeping a secret of an eating disorder,
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keeping a secret of being a victim of rape.
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And there was too much.
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I couldn't handle it anymore, and I wasn't healthy.
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I wasn't, I wasn't happy.
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I was miserable.
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- I would just sit there and think,
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"If I just cut my skin, it would feel so much better,"
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and I never knew why.
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- I actually used a pair of scissors,
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pressed down and dragged them across my forearm.
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- I got this knife, and I started to cut myself
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inside of my palm and my arms and my legs
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to punish myself because I was not capable of running away
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or use my hands to protect myself.
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- Do you find that there is a connection
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between what happened to you
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and the way that you have become religious?
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You know, people are going into it when they are in trouble.
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- Until we become religious, we all in trouble
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because we are always looking for something,
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something that is stronger than us.
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- [Interviewer] Well, could you marry Oron
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if his beliefs are different from yours?
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- We believe in the same thing.
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We do.
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- [Interviewer] So, you can't--
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- [Motty] He's not keeping the Shabbat.
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- He does with me.
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- That's not true.
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- [Linor] He does.
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- Smoking and the Shabbat and watching television,
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it's not keeping Shabbat.
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- Hopefully, it will happen.
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But you know what?
00:38:05.872 --> 00:38:07.734
You never know what will be.
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You never know.
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(tense music)
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Nur's parole hearing is coming up again.
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They need to know about the other victims,
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the women before me who tried to get him convicted
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but the courts didn't believe them.
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(gentle music)
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- I couldn't sleep last night.
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She's starting a new life with a great guy.
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He will take care of her.
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Our friendship will stay, but my role will be different,
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but it's okay.
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I hug her in my heart.
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(cheerful music)
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(audience cheering)
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(lively music) (guests clapping rhythmically)
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(tense music) (jet engine roaring)
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(keyboard clacking)
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- I had to come back to Italy.
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Oron and I are trying to start a family.
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I think I have to face the past
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in order to open the door to the future.
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Hi, Adele?
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(Linor sighs)
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- She said, "Even if I know, I wouldn't give it to you."
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- I'm sure, by the way, she know.
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The way she talked, you know, she knows.
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- Yeah, by the way she talked, she knows her.
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- Did you know about the first rape of (beep)?
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Did you know it?
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- The first case, I knew on the sentence
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because I read the sentence.
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- I see. - And I produced the sentence
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on front of the judge in your case
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to explain that Shlomo Uri is usual in this kind of crime.
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- Do you know which evidence they found?
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- They didn't find the knife?
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- I think no. - No?
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- But it's too much clear that it would have been used
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because you are full of
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- Stabs. - stabs.
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- It doesn't make sense with so many evidence
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to release someone.
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I mean, it make you think
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why would anybody go to the police.
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- It was my last day in Milan.
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I had been trying to find Nur's other victim.
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The girl was his secretary here,
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but we hadn't been able to track her down.
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(tense music)
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- [Motty] Okay.
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- She said, "Hi, I'm the girl
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"that Nur did the same 16 years ago."
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And she said that this happened to her the same.
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Took her to the same place, and she pressed charges,
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and nobody believed her.
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I just told her, "Listen, everything is so planned.
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"We weren't supposed to be here, you cannot disappear."
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She was paralyzed.
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I didn't get a letter to the parole board
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from Nur's victim here.
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She was too afraid.
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(tense music)
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- [Linor] I still have to work through what happened to me.
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I know I need to.
00:47:23.244 --> 00:47:26.164
- I can't wait to get to Rome to see my angel,
00:47:26.164 --> 00:47:28.564
the person who helped me turn everything around.
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This is where I met Nur.
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This was his agency, now it's something else.
00:47:37.546 --> 00:47:39.494
And the first time that I saw him was here
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when I wanted to get a ticket to Tel Aviv.
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He came to pick me up, and he said he wants to go
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through the apartment to take some stuff.
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This is the last place that I was
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before the most horrible thing in my life happened, here.
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- I was four years old the first time
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that he laid me down on the floor.
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- He folded me over the tub,
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and he raped and sodomized me, and.
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- I couldn't even raise up a hand because my body shut down.
00:48:14.104 --> 00:48:15.544
- You don't even think of getting out of there.
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You're like, "You know what?
00:48:16.751 --> 00:48:18.227
"This is the end of me."
00:48:18.227 --> 00:48:20.064
And not even dying, you just think, you know,
00:48:20.064 --> 00:48:21.754
the whole pain that they're causing,
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it has already killed you.
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(tense music)
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- I was just so not prepared to what happened.
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I was paralyzed.
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First, I started screaming, so he punched my face.
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He took out masking tape and rope.
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He tied my hands and put the masking tape on my mouth
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that I wouldn't speak.
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And then he raped me again like this.
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I was shouting.
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I felt like I was fighting for my life.
00:48:57.334 --> 00:48:59.904
He started to freak out and took a plastic bag
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and put it on my head.
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I thought, "That's the end of me."
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And then in one moment, he stopped.
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Just stopped.
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He started to tell me that he's sorry,
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that he can't believe that he did it again.
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I saw that he's coming back to himself,
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so I said, "Now, you're gonna show me
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"that you're a good man,
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"and you're gonna take me to the train."
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I knew that if I'll cry, he's gonna kill me.
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So, I didn't cry.
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We never left Milan.
00:49:34.954 --> 00:49:36.557
We were circling around Milan.
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Put my suitcases on the train
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and just told me to call him when I get there
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because he's gonna worry, gonna be worried.
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And then he left.
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So, I went down, I had this phone here with Telecard.
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- 5:30 in the morning, your call.
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And I remember it, and I won't forget it.
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And Linor said.
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- After being raped twice, sodomized, tied, strangled
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in very brutal ways, stabbed
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she has the intelligence and the calmness
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to reassure him that if he would let her go,
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he would be okay and she would not press charges.
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And this is something I think saved her life.
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(peaceful music)
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- [Linor] Even more than the rape,
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I felt more hopeless in that train ride
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because I didn't know what was gonna be there,
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like, who's gonna wait for me there
00:51:09.864 --> 00:51:12.064
'cause I just hang up the phone with my mom.
00:51:17.434 --> 00:51:20.291
- For me, it's still a trauma, this train
00:51:20.291 --> 00:51:23.677
'cause you didn't go with iPhone or mobile.
00:51:24.534 --> 00:51:26.044
You couldn't speak.
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Eight hours I waited to phone call,
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and I spoke with her boyfriend.
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- [Linor] I have never stopped thinking of Ofira.
00:51:48.754 --> 00:51:51.337
Without her, I wouldn't have a case.
00:52:20.724 --> 00:52:23.644
- I met Linor when she came to Roma
00:52:23.644 --> 00:52:26.554
a day after she's been raped in Milano.
00:52:26.554 --> 00:52:30.394
I went with her to the police station and to the hospital,
00:52:30.394 --> 00:52:33.547
and I gave my testimony in her trial in Israel.
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(Linor chuckles)
00:52:53.979 --> 00:52:56.562
(gentle music)
00:52:57.504 --> 00:53:00.144
- [Linor] I did the thing that scared me the most.
00:53:00.144 --> 00:53:03.524
It felt really good to go back to Italy by choice
00:53:03.524 --> 00:53:05.359
and to be in control.
00:53:05.359 --> 00:53:08.222
(speaking in foreign language)
00:53:08.222 --> 00:53:10.754
I feel relieved, and I believe I'm going
00:53:10.754 --> 00:53:13.949
to have an open in space in my heart now.
00:53:13.949 --> 00:53:17.616
(speaking foreign language)
00:54:22.747 --> 00:54:24.883
(peaceful music)
00:54:24.883 --> 00:54:27.836
(keys clacking)
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♪ Mother, should I run for president ♪
00:54:44.586 --> 00:54:49.253
♪ Mother, should I trust the government ♪
00:55:01.176 --> 00:55:06.176
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
00:55:06.789 --> 00:55:11.789
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
00:55:11.975 --> 00:55:14.216
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
00:55:14.216 --> 00:55:19.216
♪ Of course mama's gonna help build the wall ♪
00:55:27.803 --> 00:55:32.803
♪ Hush now, baby, baby, don't you cry ♪
00:55:32.889 --> 00:55:35.639
(Linor laughing)
00:55:36.529 --> 00:55:41.529
♪ Mama's gonna wait up till you get in ♪
00:55:42.139 --> 00:55:47.139
♪ Mama will always find out where you've been ♪
00:55:47.358 --> 00:55:52.358
♪ Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean ♪
00:55:56.704 --> 00:56:01.704
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
00:56:02.693 --> 00:56:07.693
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
00:56:07.974 --> 00:56:09.986
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
00:56:09.986 --> 00:56:13.819
♪ You'll always be baby to me ♪
00:56:20.117 --> 00:56:24.450
♪ Mother, did it need to be so high ♪
00:57:10.732 --> 00:57:13.315
(gentle music)
00:57:25.582 --> 00:57:30.582
♪ Winter time, I'm confused and feeling low-down ♪
00:57:32.027 --> 00:57:34.604
♪ The house is cold ♪
00:57:34.604 --> 00:57:38.854
♪ And you, you're not around ♪
00:57:38.854 --> 00:57:41.537
♪ I'm tryin' to call you ♪
00:57:41.537 --> 00:57:45.677
♪ But you're not there ♪
00:57:45.677 --> 00:57:48.256
♪ Just want to tell you ♪
00:57:48.256 --> 00:57:51.090
♪ How much I care ♪
00:57:51.090 --> 00:57:53.419
♪ And tell you, I'm sorry ♪
00:57:53.419 --> 00:57:55.157
♪ I'm sorry ♪
00:57:55.157 --> 00:57:56.820
♪ So, when I talked to Linor last, ♪
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She told me, "You have to talk to your family.
00:57:58.631 --> 00:57:59.924
"The worst has already happened."
00:57:59.924 --> 00:58:01.444
And she was completely right.
00:58:01.444 --> 00:58:04.534
- The opportunity to speak with Linor,
00:58:04.534 --> 00:58:09.424
while terrifying, really, it showed me that I'm not alone.
00:58:09.424 --> 00:58:11.154
No one deserves to be treated like that,
00:58:11.154 --> 00:58:13.884
and I finally have my voice back.
00:58:13.884 --> 00:58:15.914
- It's put me in touch for the first time
00:58:15.914 --> 00:58:20.774
with people who have also survived rape, molestation,
00:58:20.774 --> 00:58:21.814
and it's helped me to realize
00:58:21.814 --> 00:58:23.664
that despite what happened to me,
00:58:23.664 --> 00:58:27.454
I can go on and have a happy life.
00:58:27.454 --> 00:58:30.124
- Since meeting you, Linor, I got married,
00:58:30.124 --> 00:58:33.424
and it's all because you helped and encouraged me
00:58:33.424 --> 00:58:36.424
to continue following the hopes and dreams
00:58:36.424 --> 00:58:40.024
that I had before the rape, and I thank you for that.
00:58:40.024 --> 00:58:41.904
- Since meeting Linor, Munni and I
00:58:41.904 --> 00:58:45.294
have graduated from college, still living together.
00:58:45.294 --> 00:58:47.684
As a person who has not experienced this,
00:58:47.684 --> 00:58:50.494
you cannot know how it feels,
00:58:50.494 --> 00:58:53.034
but that doesn't mean that you can't be a support system.
00:58:53.034 --> 00:58:54.384
- Yeah.
00:58:54.384 --> 00:58:57.151
- I am very, very proud of her, very.
00:58:58.203 --> 00:58:59.403
You don't know how much.
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♪ My baby ♪
00:59:23.067 --> 00:59:25.530
♪ My baby ♪
00:59:25.530 --> 00:59:28.843
♪ I'm here to see you through ♪
00:59:28.843 --> 00:59:32.693
♪ Oh, I'm here to see you through ♪
00:59:32.693 --> 00:59:35.266
♪ I'm here to see you through ♪
00:59:35.266 --> 00:59:38.730
♪ We can survive ♪
00:59:38.730 --> 00:59:40.730
♪ Oh oh ♪