This winter, a documentary about the musician R. Kelly brought attention to African American girls who are victims of sexual abuse by older men. In the Ethiopian diaspora, that docuseries opened the floodgates on stories about sexual assault of young girls. The World’s Allison Herrera reports on how one California woman is demanding attention on the problem in the US and in Ethiopia.
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