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“We want to stop the silence, stop the shame,” said Yolanda Thompson, a program manager for the Office for Women. Speaking on the stigma that often keeps people from discussing sexual assault or domestic violence with each other, or reporting it to police, she said, “We don’t do this to other victims of crime.”

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