By Eric Ferkenhoff and Corey Jones
Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team
She recalls standing handcuffed outside of a sheriff's squad car, having just been raped on the roadside. The deputy handed her a stack of napkins from a McDonald’s where they had stopped to get a meal, she says.
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