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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. 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. | What do you mean "Fight like a Girl"? 
"In a stranger-rape situation, if he allows you to see his face, you get his name, or you can somehow otherwise identify your attacker, and he knows it, it’s all the more important to get away from him, even if he has a knife and you are risking injury. Because unless he’s quite inexperienced, he’s likely to kill you to leave no witnesses." Program a Long Time Coming "The concept of enlightening women to 'fight like girls' is a long time coming. We should have been doing this years ago. The female body is built differently and can be used effectively against a male attacker if trained properly. Defend University and the Rape Escape program have proven again and again that the Fight Like a Girl program is successful, easy to learn and easy to deliver."
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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.