ashley johnson barr was a 10-year-old, beautiful little girl. and ashley was probably one of those happy kids who loved purple -- thus, my purple scarf and purple jacket today -- and just one of those beautiful, young children growing up in katzebeau who would gone on to have a productive life, but ashley johnson barr is remembered now because at the age of 10 years old, she was brutally raped and murdered. she was literally taken from the kids' playground there and taken to a location not too many miles outside of the community. and her death, the tragedy around the circumstance of how she left this world is one that is an open and a raw and hurtful and horrific scar on alaska, alaska communities. it is a reminder that in my state, a place that is a place of extraordinary beauty, with beautiful people, there is a darkness that is very, very difficult to talk about, and that darkness is reflected in the statistics that we see when it comes to sexual assault, domestic violence, and more brutal acts of murder inflicted, unfortunately, in a disprop