Unheard: Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation. These women and men did not choose to be violated, but they now choose to speak about what happened.

Unheard: Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation. A grand jury handed up 11 felony charges against the alleged perpetrator: four counts of first-degree sexual assault, five counts of second-degree sexual assault, and one count each of third-degree assault and theft. In December 2017, the same defendant pleaded guilty to an attempted sexual assault charge in the second degree, after another victim reported him. A community advocate for Alaska Native survivors of sexual assault, especially missing and murdered indigenous women, Smith intimately knows the scars of child sexual abuse. [Extracted from the article]