Pam Pearsall, guest host of Prescott Talks, interviews Missy Sikora, the Director of the Yavapai Family Advocacy Center. Missy explains that the Center handles interpersonal crime such as child abuse, sexual assault, elder abuse, and domestic violence. The Center acts as a local community resource, bringing in outside agencies as victim advocates, education, support groups,
U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused. U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been
In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 file photo, Tarana Burke, founder and leader of the #MeToo movement, stands for a portrait in her home in Baltimore. When Indira Henard, director of the DC Rape Crisis Center, received the text message Wednesday, she thought she wasn’t reading her phone correctly. “Indira oh my god,” said the
Dozens of corrections officers at New Jersey’s only women’s prison have been placed on paid leave following allegations that staff brutally beat and sexually assaulted inmates there. One woman, Ajila Nelson, told NJ.com that officers at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility on Jan. 11 handcuffed her and others, before punching, kicking, stripping and dragging her
At the end of April 2020 the Prescott Police Department responded to a report of Sexual Assault that occurred within the City of Prescott. An adult female victim reported being sexually assaulted by 39 year old John Hoyt Fullen at his Prescott residence. During the course of the investigation it was learned that the suspect
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