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The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode in a two part series, we have a conversation with Alicia Cohen who is a survivor of family controlled sex trafficking and the founder of SAFE (Survivors Against Familial Exploitation). Join us as Alicia shares her experience of sexual abuse and exploitation at the hands of her father who who used the church to hide his crimes. Alicia also unpacks her very frustrating attempts to leverage the criminal justice system to address the very real ongoing safety concerns for current day victims.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. We've always thought that the most compelling story
0:09.8	strikes the perfect balance between an honest look at the mess of life and the humor that can be found in the mess.
0:14.9	To be perfectly honest, we don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.
0:20.1	Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times. We can spin from hard, We don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.
0:23.5	Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times.
0:27.2	We can spin from hard and deep to humor and laughing on a dime.
0:31.6	The hard will be really hard and the truths we share are the ugliest of humanity.
0:36.1	We don't intend to make it seem like it's all fine or to pretty up the pain.
0:38.4	But we also know that the joy we found is all the more profound because of the pain. So we hope you can stick with us through the ugly
0:43.7	because there will also be joy and hope and humor. Welcome to The Ugly Truth About the Girl
0:48.8	Next Door. Hi, welcome back to our podcast, The Ugly Truth About the Girl Next Door.
0:58.0	I'm Kate.
0:59.2	And I'm Lori.
1:00.4	And today with us, we have a friend of mine, Alicia Cohen.
1:06.8	I met Alicia, or I got connected to Alicia, actually, while looking for information to help educate Grace, the independent investigators that were coming into with Cornerstone Church.
1:19.8	When they were beginning their investigation, I felt, you know, like they really didn't know a lot about familial trafficking.
1:27.2	And so I was looking for resources and I stumbled
1:30.4	across a website called safe for us.org, which will link in our social media pages for people to
1:38.3	check out. But Alicia runs that website and I reached out to her and the rest is lovely history. So Alicia, do you want to
1:47.4	introduce yourself? Sure. I am a special educator here in Delaware and I have lived experience
1:55.7	on familial trafficking. We started safe in 2019 to try to bring together adult survivors of familial
2:05.7	trafficking and also try to collect more data and survivor informed trainings for the public.
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