A warning to listeners.

This episode contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence.

I'm Amy Britton and this is Canary, an investigative podcast from the Washington Post.

Chapter 4.

To Serve As A Judge

After that first trip to Birmingham, it felt like something rare had been sent into

motion.

Something that Carol had kept quiet and hidden for decades was now starting to make its

way to the surface.

As I was back in DC, Carol and I would talk frequently.

And often she would circle back to the connection she felt to another woman who she didn't actually

know.

Lauren Clark.

Lauren's attacker was sent at spy judge Morrison to 10 days in jail.

If she had not come forward the way she did and got neurodenton and did that story,

if she hadn't done that, I probably would be just rolling along like I was before and

it's completely changed my life.

Carol didn't know Lauren, but Carol said this loyalty to Lauren, a stranger, had propelled

her this far.

Her moments of fear that gripped me, but I've really come so far in a strange way.

She's really important to me.

And Carol said she believed she needed to keep going.

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