"Now I can say no"

Moscow -- With shaky hands, Sandee Kean wiped tears from her eyes as she got fitted with padding.

"I'm ready," was all she could repeat, barely a whisper. "I'm ready." Seven years ago, she wasn't.

"I was raped in 1999, but didn't know it because I was drugged," the 41-year-old Lake Ariel resident said.

To overcome her fears, to protect her young son and herself, she enrolled in Moscow Police Chief Ivy Brenzel's self-defense class.

"I can’t get that moment back, but at least now I can protect the ones I have left," Ms. Kean said. "At least now I can say no."

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