This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Use your best judgment.

Only 20% of rate victims are strangers to their attackers, and only 15% of rate victims are

between the ages of 12 and 17.

Tragically, Crystal Sealer, a 13-year-old from Rochester, New York, defied the odds.

While waiting for the school bus, standing just 70 feet from her front door, a stranger

grabbed her and assaulted her.

Within a short time period, the rapist assaulted a series of teenage girls.

The normal stressors of being a teenager, coupled with being assaulted, would be difficult

enough to overcome.

But in this case, the sexual assault survivors also had to live with the knowledge that their

rapist was free.

He could walk freely around their neighborhoods, and he did, for the next 10 years.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brooke, and here's Bill Curtis, with a classic case, innocent stolen.

In November of 1995, Sergeant Mark Marriano investigates the rape of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

The person came up from behind me, and he told me not to say anything and covered my mouth.

Crystal Sealer is in the seventh grade when she finds herself alone, in the dark, waiting

for the bus to school.

He took me across the street to a boat that was in a yard that was directly from my bus stop,

and from there, he made me take down my pants, and he touched me, and told me not to say

anything that he knew where I lived, and he'd hurt me in my family.

Crystal is sexually assaulted by a man.

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