Teri Hatcher's story appears relevant in the wake of Bill Cosby's alleged crimes in the past decades. Reports revealed that the issue on exploitation against women have taken another form in the case of Hatcher whose plight started at the young age of seven.
Business 2 Community shared Hatcher's speech in an event undertaken by the United Nations, the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women" during which she narrated her story of being molested by an uncle when she was a child. Prior to this event, Hatcher has made it public way back in 2006 when she narrated the incident in an interview with Vanity Fair.
However, she has kept the traumatic experience to herself, a normal tendency for a child to do so out of fear and instead struggle with self-pity and depression until such time that she losses self-control and become defiant to social norms, which actually happened to Hatcher.
Richard Hayes Stone was the alleged aggressor, whose evil acts victimized not only his niece but other young girls as well, until such time that one of his victims committed suicide that the actress found the courage to seek justice and reported the incident to the DA.
Justice was served and Stone was sentenced to imprisonment for 14 years.
She opened up how she learned of her uncle's abuses towards other women. She read the news in an old issue of a newspaper about a woman who left behind a suicide note saying that she opted to end her life because she can't endure the abuses made to her as a child and Stone was pointed as the culprit.
As she was given the honors to light the Empire State Building for those who have been sexually abused, Hatcher takes the crusade seriously and encouraged women who have similar experiences to seek immediate help for this crime has to be stopped.
