Domestic Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking: A Trilogy of Evil

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Domestic Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking: A Trilogy of Evil - A Journey of Deliverance

Our 2025 Annual Reentry Conference will focus upon the challenges that the victims of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual abuse confront in the criminal justice system. Of particular emphasis is understanding how, when, and why women take action against their historic perpetrators.

NJRC will provide a platform for advocates, physicians, and survivors to discuss the trauma suffered, supporting women through advocating for diversionary criminal justice programming, and providing reentry support in civil society.

Please take time to read the groundbreaking research highlighted in the New York Times

Opinion:

Rachel Louise Snyder is a contributing Opinion writer who has written extensively about domestic abuse.

The first fight Anita Ford remembers having with her husband, Barry Ford, was over dishes. They’d been married only a few years. She turned 18 three weeks before their wedding; five months later, she gave birth to their first child, a boy named Robert. On this night, they’d ordered takeout; she’d put the few dishes they’d used in the dishwasher, but her husband didn’t like her to leave dirty dishes at night. She remembers him screaming at her, then punching her over and over on her right arm and shoulder, and the brutality was so shocking, she froze. If she could just learn to do it his way, he told her, then he wouldn’t be forced to hit her. He promised he wouldn’t do it again. He was so terribly sorry...

Date: April 17th, 2025

Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Location: Saint Peter's University - MacMahon Student Center Jersey City, NJ

More details to come—stay tuned!

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