Since October 2017, millions of women have united in a movement exposing the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault across the world using the hashtag “MeToo.” By December 2017, on Twitter alone, 1.7 million people from 85 countries had participated in the #MeToo movement. Mothers, daughters, women in business, tech, and entertainment continue to add their voices to this narrative. Mormon women, however, remain largely silent.
According to a survey by the CDC, one in five women will be the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. One in four American girlswill experience some kind of sexual abuse by the age of 18. While there are no concrete statistics on the number of American Mormon women who have experienced sexual assault, we can assume that the number is on par with national averages. Mormons are not infallible, and Mormon women are not unsusceptible to this all too common affliction of womanhood.
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