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engagement reporter @propublica | journ prof @newmarkjschool | la tía de Emi
Aug 1, 2019 11 tweets 10 min read
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Imagine: you’ve been sexually assaulted.

Your town is so remote that you have to take a plane — without showering — to a larger city in order to have a sexual assault exam or forensic interview.

For some people living in rural Alaska, this is real life. 2/ Stories like this are only the beginning of what @adndotcom @Nadiasussman and I have heard as we continue to report on sexual violence and how it is — and isn’t — dealt within Alaska.

We’ve heard from ~300 people so far, many of them survivors.

We’ve also heard that: