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Nonprofitshoppingmall.com Highlights Sexual Abuse Issues Making Rainn.org Its Default Beneficiary Throughout May
(CSRwire) ANAHEIM, CA - April 30, 2008 - Ecommerce fundraising site
nonprofitshoppingmall.com takes on a charged, emotional and difficult
topic this month -- rape, sexual abuse and incest. In its
interview with actress Christina Ricci, national spokesperson for RAINN
(Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) – the nation’s leading
anti-sexual assault organization, nonprofitshoppingmall.com offers an
introduction to the staggering numbers associated with these crimes, their
ongoing psychological effects and where public policy issues currently
stand with respect to reporting, prosecuting and DNA testing.
The timing is especially crucial with schools letting out soon for summer
and with graduation holidays just around the corner. According to Scott
Berkowitz, president & founder of RAINN, somewhere in America, someone is
being sexually assaulted at the alarming rate of every two minutes.
Almost half of these victims are under 18 and 80% are under 30. RAINN is
the go-to site for first-time freshman going away to college, anyone
planning to move out on their own or those getting that first job away
from home.
On April 14, 2008, RAINN launched its newest outreach program, a safe,
secure, anonymous place for victims to get help online. Using an
instant-messaging style format, the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline
allows sexual assault victims to communicate directly with trained crisis
support volunteers available online 24/7. Together with its tele-based
National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE), the organization will be
able to provide a lifeline to victims trapped in situations where their
only safe and secure link to the outside world may be through the
Internet.
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com allows consumers to shop online for the things
they would normally buy, from the brands they would normally choose, at
the prices they would normally pay. The added benefit is that when a
consumer purchases items through nonprofitshoppingmall.com they also make
a contribution to RAINN through the month of May.
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com site visitors can choose from over 225
brand-name retailers featuring clothing and accessories, home and garden
decor, travel deals, health and beauty products, pet supplies, action
sports gear and more. Retailers include Target, Amazon, Macys,
Urban Outfitters, Aeropostale, Staples, PetCo and many others,
including a wide range of green and eco-friendly merchants.
In addition to providing support to victims of sexual assault, RAINN.org
and their new National Sexual Assault Online Hotline provides information
about recovery, medical issues, the criminal justice process, and local
resources for family and friends of victims -- help support their goal by
shopping through nonprofitshoppingmall.com while turning everyday shopping
into everyday giving – everyday.
About nonprofitshoppingmall.com
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com (www.nonprofitshoppingmall.com)
allows consumers to shop online for the things they would normally buy,
from the brands they would normally choose, at the prices they would
normally pay. Shoppers make a donation to charitable organizations with
just one click, giving rise to a powerful yet subtle fundraising tool.
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com, an E-commerce site where shopping is good for
you and everyone else.
About RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
RAINN (www.rainn.org)
is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization and was named one
of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth magazine. RAINN carries out
programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists
are brought to justice.
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lou vitti
2008-05-06 19:08:01
New York Philharmonic Orchestra –How some members sexually abuse young college girls?
The most traumatic experience in my life turned out to how some of the musicians of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra manipulated my wife.
They Are:
1.Before we married, the flute player, Musician #1,used
emotional/sexual abuse, fear and rape on my wife. I remember sitting
in the audience during a master class and suddenly, I was just
watching, the police came and escorted me out of the building. He
saw me and was looking for sexual conquest, another notch on his
belt for getting my wife. During private lessons, he would teach breathing lessons and sexual touch my wife to arouse her. He made her drive 2 hours to New Jersey to his house one night. I was playing a musical show and did not know. I found out many of these events way after they happened. He arrived late and yelled at her for waiting in the car in the street. Inside, he got what he wanted. Another time, he made her drive to Hartford, CT since he was a teacher at Yale University. He was always yelling and angry with her. He used the techniques of emotional abuse, sexual abuse, fear, anger and rape for a promise with a job with the orchestra. What did I get-gonorrhea. He did not recognize. He always told my wife that she was using him to make me jealous, a common technique using blame to abuse. He went in and came out of mental institutions his entire career. When he had sex with my wife, he would get mad and make her leave the house late at night. He was evil. The last time he came out of a mental institution, on the same day, he hung himself on the shower rod. For some reason, I felt a sense of closure and in a weird way was happy. I know many girls from the 70's while I was a music student. They see a psychologist, suffer from PTSD, are depressed and afraid to tell their husbands who do not know since they have children and a marriage. But since that time, he destroyed many girls’ lives and made them go into denial of being raped. It is natural for women to go into this state and try to forget since some are submissive. It is natural for women to go into this pre-PTSD state.
2. Musician #2- During lessons he would try to undress my wife by
unbuttoning her shirt to cop a feel and get oral sex. He never
succeeded but his wife was in the house. In addition, he came over
our house and acted as a friend of mind while behind my back he was trying. My wife was in a state of fear and afraid to tell me. Well,
he was an alcoholic and drank himself to death. He was into
collecting guns and rifles and I wonder if this had an affect on
creating fear.
3. Musician #3- He would invite my wife to NY Philharmonic
rehearsals and give her the impression of a job. Then ask my wife to
lunch and have a lesson in his Manhattan studio. In his home in
Brewster, NY, he would try in his studio the common abuse methods by impressing his students with his playing but he was not a good teacher since he did not know how to teach the methods to achieve these goals in playing. Meanwhile, while he tried, I was waiting in the car outside and his wife was in the house a real low life bas.......d.
Today there is one person left. (3 out of 4 have died). What a relief. Anger has left and I wait for God's justice.
I contacted many offices and executives of the NY Philharmonic and no one has replied. I consider myself an advocate for this form of rape. Recently, a clarinetist was revealed for doing these pervert actions. The Philharmonic spoke to him; imagine. He should have been taken out with handcuffs during a concert for all to see and for him, be revealed for his actions for the last 30 years.
Most people have this pristine look at orchestras and never hear about some of the things mentioned above that go on. If they only knew, I could imagine what they and the press would think. It really is worse than what Elliot Spitzer, ex-Governor of NY did and that was really bad.
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