Three people raped me in front of my son." Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo attacked this woman, took her clothes and burned her house.

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Sally was beaten and raped as a 10-year-old bride, but her December 2009 petition for divorce had failed.

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Sharpton made national headlines in 1987 after he became an advocate for Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old, black New Yorker who claimed six white police officers abducted and raped her.

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Refugees similarly barred from entering America include a woman forced to cook for the Liberian rebels who raped her and a Colombian teenager forced by his paramilitary captors to bury his murdered parents.

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When a 13-year-old girl in Zambia was repeatedly raped by her teacher, the Adolescent Girls Legal Defense Fund supported the girl's court case against the teacher who raped her and the headmaster who knowingly allowed the assaults to occur.

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