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Hiding pain is one thing. Erasing the scars is quite another.
The rape changed Laurel's understanding of the world. She had nightmares. The world was no longer safe. She became the archetype of a victim - the vulnerable, docile person that violent criminals hone in on.
"I had a victim tattoo on my forehead," Laurel says now.
She was assaulted again during her junior year of high school. It was at a party when she went out to a car with a boy to get more beer and he pulled out a pocket knife.
It's no surprise Laurel again was a sex crime victim, experts say. Someone sexually abused as a child is nearly five times as likely to be raped again, says Lynn Parrish of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, the nation's largest anti-sexual-assault organization.
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