Prominent National Figure Publicly Admits Being Sexually Assaulted, Examiner, November 16, 2009

Prominent National Figure Publicly Admits Being Sexually Assaulted

Examiner
November 16, 2009

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In a shocking, heartfelt declaration, Vicki Polin, who has worked in the field of sexual trauma and is the founder and director of the Awareness Center, established to help assault victims, tells her story publicly for the first time of being assaulted herself this past summer.

Vicki Polin, MA, LCPC, is the founder and director of The Awareness Center

"As a licensed mental health professional who has been advocating for survivors of sexual violence for the last 25 years, I have watched many victims struggling with what they need to do to heal. It can take years just to tell another person you've been victimized, let alone notifying the police.

"It happened to me," Polin says, in a special report published today on CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM. "I am still in a state of shock, but for the first time I am speaking out publicly...." READ MORE....