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Past Present Positive: A Victory For Victims
Cranston Herald, June 8, 2006 by Meri R. Kennedy
It was not that long ago when I, along with my 14-year-old daughter, took a trek to the State House to encourage the passage of Jessica’s Law, which requires mandatory sentencing and GPS tracking for all sexual offenders. The law is important to me, as a past victim of childhood sexual abuse and rape, and important to my daughter, who knows what I had endured as a child and wants to ensure her own safety as she grows up in this world.
I tell her often, “Honey, the world is a good place, you just need to be careful and think … be able to think things through, be able to think fast on your feet, and if it seems or feels like danger, it is danger.”
The full text of this article can be found at The Cranston Herald.
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