Rape Escape provides answers to "Inside Edition" on secondary crime scene

Steve Kardian of Defend University New York and Rape Escape’s East Coast  representative and Marty McDonald, child safety expert and Rape Escape apprentice, appeared on Inside Edition Feb. 6 to demonstrate techniques following the discovery of little Carlie Brucia's body in Florida.

by Steve Kardian

One of the worst scenarios that can occur to a rape victim is being accosted by a predator and taken to a secondary crime scene.   This type of crime occurs daily in the United States. Two of the most recent and notable incidents of this kind have caught the attention of the National media. Dru Sjodin of Grand Forks, North Dakota and Carlie Brucia of Sarasota, Florida were both approached in a public place by career sex offenders and taken to, what law enforcement refers to as, a secondary crime scene, brutalized and then murdered.

If a victim is accosted and taken to a secondary crime scene she has very little chance of surviving this horrific encounter.  On the other hand if a woman screams, runs away, or drops into the rape escape defensive position she has more than a 50% chance of walking away with little or no injury. As Brad Parker states, if you do any of these defensive actions you are ruining the predators plan.

 On camera I was asked to instruct a 12 year-old girl, with no prior self defense experience, how to avoid being grabbed by the wrist and dragged to a vehicle or to a secluded area. I worked with the young girl for less than 5 minutes and had her performing the technique in perfect fashion on national television. It’s a major credit to the Rape Escape program that we are able, within minutes, to teach these techniques effectively. Marty McDonald then demonstrated defensive action for the young girl if she was placed into a vehicle against her will. Again the young girl was able to apply what she had learned just minutes prior.