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This morning and cbs evening news. She is a graduate of villanova universitys law school, and she pa passed the bar exams in new jersey and pennsylvania. A and so paula is an attorney, and so i turn the it over. Yes, i am a recovering law r lawyer. And this is a topic that i am very excited to be at the important issue, and have the panelists take a few minutes to introduce themselves, and talk about this work, and specifically what kind of work they are doing. Andrea, i would like to start with you. Would you introduce yourself and talk to us about what brought you into the field and what you do day in, day out. Thank you. Thank you for having me here today. And it is an honor to be here with you guys, and thank you for understanding how important it is to have survivors speak on this issue. It is different than a few years ago and it is exciting to share with you, what we are doing here in atlanta, and i am a survivor as you well know. I entered the life 20 years ago and i have been ....
Already exposed to some kind of instability in their lives, and there was a time when Law Enforcement across the country would say that cant be a Trafficking Victim because she was pretty prosecuted. They are now saying let me look at the trafficker exploited the vulnerability. There were times when Law Enforcement across the country would say a jury in my district will not believe an undocumented woman who knowingly came to this country illegally and did some knowing she would prostitute because thats just an illegal prostitute thats not going to be a sympathetic jury. Now we are seeing people say wait a minute, there is somebody behind this who facilitate that whole smuggling and prostitution scheme by manipulating this victim and knowing that she was not inclined to speak out and would not turn to authorities fo ....
Their policies for those who report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing its recommendations to the secretary of defense and Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] before we continue with our next panel, id like miss garvin to have the mic for a moment. During the break i had an opportunity to speak a little more to miss stolberg and asked her about her service dog and she authorized me to say how much the service dog has aided in her recovery and how important the dog is. And she pays for the dog out of pocket and did not have access to that as part of her recovery in any formal way so i thought it was important for us to know na piece of information in light of how much its helped in her recovery. Thank you. Okay. Were now going to begin with the briefing of the department ....
Report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing recommendations to the secretary of defense. And the Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. Before we continue with our next panel, i would like miss gar vin to have the mike for a moment. During the break i had the opportunity to speak further with hannah. Who spoke to us before. And asked about her service dog that she had with her. And i apologize for not thinking to ask her while she was there. She authorized me to share. How much the service dog has aided in her recovery. And how important the dog is. And she authorized he to share she paid for the dog out of the pocket. And didnt have access to that as part of her recovery. And any formal way. And so i thought it was important for us to know that piece of information in light of how much it helped in h ....