Audrie & Daisy (2016)

Truly devastating documentary focusing on the stories of two teens. Though they both suffered sexual assault, it was the aftermath  -- the social media shaming and bullying and support for their attackers  -- that had the more traumatic and lasting effects.

We all know about the bullies in the classroom and the need to protect children from the cruelty of their peers and the equal need to educate them not to BE those bullies. But this movie clearly demonstrates that adults can be every bit as ugly, most egregiously the sheriff of Nodaway County at the time: Darren White. He had the audacity to say -- on camera -- that "girls are just as culpable as boys in this world" and that these attacks did not rise to the level of "rape" in reference to the assaults on a 13-year-old child whose attacker admitted she told him "no" and on a 14-year-old girl who was unable to move. When the interviewer reminded him that, in these particular cases, boys were the ones who'd committed the crimes, he replied "DID they?" with a smirk. That man is the father of at least two daughters.

Visit safebae.org (Daisy is a co-founder) to learn about how you can help raise awareness of sexual assault in schools and to find out about Title IX rights.

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