TALLAHASSEY, Florida — Senator Lauren Book often talks with her nanny about being sexually abused as a child for six years. She turned her pain into helping other survivors of abuse.
After years of hard work to heal himself and fix his life, running a non-profit organization to help victims, get married, have kids, win the Senate, etc. The book was sacrificed again. For revealing the nude pictures stolen from her.
To make matters worse, during her investigation, she learns that the images have been bought and traded online since 2000.
"I don't like that happening to me," Book told the Associated Press in an interview. "I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. But I know I can do something about it, so take it."
The book is taking action so that only legislators can do it. While the pain quickly returned, her fighting spirit returned as well, and she seeks new laws to prevent others from sacrificing her.
The bill, sponsored by the Democratic Book, will hold its first committee hearing on Tuesday. It would strengthen Florida's revenge porn law by making it a crime to steal sexually explicit images from someone's phone or other digital device. It also spreads sexually explicit images that have been modified or created, which are known as deepfakes, hooliganism.
The book exposed his anger in a telephone interview with the AP on Monday night, explaining international trade and the sale of stolen images from people without his knowledge. Sometimes she used to curse loudly and sometimes she used to shed tears. She called it a sick, changed subculture that pays more for images of celebrities and elected officials, but at the expense of lesser-known women.
"Frankly, I would have ended my life without the kids," she said. "It brought everything up. You've fixed and replaced whatever you think you've got under your belt, and suddenly here it is, right in front of your face."
And the conversations people had on their websites only added to their fears.
"They were reading who I am and talking about how I am a rape survivor, so get some rape videos. Rape her and kill some. Can I be tortured "Can I make some of them? Can I find them? How can I get them?" said the book.
The book still doesn't know how the image was stolen. However, investigators told her that the photos used by the teens to blackmail her were sent from virtual private networks in Sweden and Russia.
As an influential lobbyist, a 17-year-old daughter, she found the courage to go through anorexia, sleepless nights, and move to Tallahassee, at the time fighting while crying to convince lawmakers and Gob. Jeb Bush passed a law requiring HIV testing of rape suspects.
Currently, she is a 37-year-old senator and feels well positioned to grapple with the resources to hire an attorney to remove the images from the website. There are not many others.
Still, that was the beginning and end of her childhood abuse - her abuser was charged and imprisoned - a matter that will last forever.
"There are still things out there. Still. They never disappear. People bought it, people traded it, and it's not unique. It happens to women mostly every day. It's happening," she said. said.
Senator Florida fights back over nude images stolen from him