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How Silence Allows Sexual Abuse to Continue
When Elizabeth was 6, her mother died and she took her first job: farming beans, corn and peanuts in an eastern Ecuadorian town known for its agricultural processing industry, about 20 miles from the Pacific coast. It was the same year her uncle raped her for the first time.
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