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“He won’t stop raping me. He told me not to tell anyone.”<\/p>\n

In August 2011, teen-focused social change organization\u00a0DoSomething.org<\/a>\u00a0received this startling text message. It wasn’t rare for the nonprofit to receive replies unrelated to the social causes it highlighted through its mobile platform \u2014\u00a0<\/span>teens often looked to talk about issues such as bullying, questioning sexuality and substance abuse<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>But this text’s raw honesty was particularly jarring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 4 myths that will change how you define bullying<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After one of DoSomething’s\u00a0<\/span>digital engagement managers\u00a0<\/span>hesitated to answer, another message came through from the same number about an hour later: “R U there?”<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“He won’t stop raping me. He told me not to tell anyone.” In August 2011, teen-focused social change organization\u00a0DoSomething.org\u00a0received this startling text message. It wasn’t rare for the nonprofit to receive replies unrelated to the social causes it highlighted through … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3100,2084,892,725,2329],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-dosomething-org","tag-mental-health","tag-social-good","tag-tech","tag-texting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}