Summary: Rape In The Fields

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Some of the women were not able to win the case and some did get justice for what Marin did to them. Sexual harassment is a big issue that many occur to women this is a big trauma that immigrant women have to go through. There is help out there for these women for example on the video Rape in the Fields 2013, it mentions that there is a government agency called equal employment Opportunity Commotion witch is known as the EEOC Beltamayo was the investigator who helped these women. EEOC agents Harris farm has been the first case to go to court were a women was raped 3 times at gun point. EEOC won the civil case and rapist Rodriguez was not ever put in jail. There has been many other places were women have been sexual harassment agent women,

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