The Story of Amanda Nguyen

Liu Yu said that he opposed big-character posters and supported legal means? Pretty words are too light.

When I attended the launch of Purposeful's new book last month, author Jennifer Dulski invited Amanda Nguyen, a rape survivor she interviewed in her book, to chat.

In 2013, Amanda, a senior at Harvard, was raped. After she filed a complaint, she discovered that rape victims' rape kits could only be kept for six months in Massachusetts before they were destroyed. Although the statute of limitations for prosecuting rape in Massachusetts (the statute of limitations for prosecuting rape? Welcome corrections!) is 15 years, if the evidence box is overdue, the rapist cannot be charged or charged. conviction. Rape evidence boxes are kept in different ways across the country, but they all have similarly unreasonable regulations.

Amanda founded the rape victim group Rise in 2014 to push for legislation in Congress not only to extend the preservation of evidence boxes, but also to provide legal assistance and protection for victims. Obama signed the new bill they drafted into law in 2016, and the new law goes into effect federally.

Just last month, Amanda was nominated as the winner of the Nobel//Peace Prize :) Such a staged struggle has gone through countless twists and turns, which is very rare.

Amanda commented on #metoo# in an interview with HuffPost. "Since the Me Too movement, we've seen more legislators and volunteers reaching out to us, more survivors speaking up, and more calls to action to fix our criminal justice system. It has made people far more cognizant of the work," she said. that is still ahead.” (The Me Too movement has made more people aware of the seriousness of rape/sexual assault, more victims have the courage to speak up, and more people are willing to take action to improve related legal issues. That is, Only then did more people realize that this is a long way to go and requires more participation and louder volume.