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"These were kids we knew, kids we respected. 'They wouldn't do this for you,' she insisted. I needed to believe her. But I couldn't...." On July 6, 2002, 16-year-old Alisa Kaplan woke, tired and disoriented, in the traveler couch of her car. She'd been at a celebration the night time before, but there was a big blank opening where her own stories of the night time should have been. So what took place at that get together? Why couldn't she keep in mind anything about the night time before? As the appalling, terrifying details of that night began to surface, it ignited a press frenzy and a storm of controversy with Alisa captured at the center: A straight-laced, straight-A scholar, sexually assaulted by three male friends - all trapped on videotape. Her struggle for justice pitted her against a few of Southern California's most powerful households and made her the mark of a devastating smear campaign. Despite the evidence, the corruption and humiliation of her first trial resulted in a hung jury and delivered her spiraling in to the oblivion of meth craving. But on the threshold of her previous chance and darkest point in time, Alisa learned: There was still room for hope. Now she recounts her gripping story of transforming from victim to survivor: how she got another chance, broke her silence, and found beliefs and elegance in God on her behalf way to rebuilding a more robust, significant life. Courageous and heartbreaking, Alisa's hope-filled bill demonstrates that redemption is often possible, and forgiveness can transform anyone.
