The Crippling 'Double-Whammy' of Surviving Assault Only to Face Student Loans

As a college freshman at Penn State, LaQuisha Anthony, once a star student athlete, was forced to drop out after experiencing a sexual assault. The harrowing experience would subject her to a 12-year “battle with suicide, severe depression, and financial instability,” she said in a press release about the newly introduced Student Loan Deferment for Sex-Based Harassment Survivors Act (HR 558) in Congress. The ability to instead pause her education—and her student loan payments—to seek treatment a

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