because he was found in the house, and he was in there. >> joining me now is "the new york times" nick christophon all sides of that story. >> absolutely. we felt, you know it was heartbreaking to see a 4-year-old girl suffer that kind of abuse. then it was heartbreaking to see that the perpetrator was another kid. it's kids abusing kids. >> and no answers in a community like that. so often a blind eye turned to any kind of sexual violence, a blind eye turned particularly to the claims of women, and a corrupt legal system when they try to call attention to it. >> one of the things we found most incredibly frustrating was the police had no interest in enforcing rape charge there is. we tend to measure inequality in terms of metrics of income or wealth. the most brutal inequality is when a majority of people there, their first sexual experience is by rape. it's the indignity. it's the hopelessness. it just pervades every day. and the police, you know, the way to end that is to end the impunity. the police have no interest in doing that. >> we were following families who were bringing cases of rape

the victims of these crimes get, i would end with just one comment and that's something that nick christoph has done a lot of writing, called half the sky, based on the chinese proverb that women hold up half the sky, so basically if you put your head in the sand and you pretending this isn't happening? you are giving up half the sky. unless our country takes a stand and cleans up our own house? it's really hard for us to be the moral compass with the rest of the world on this issue. when more women rise up in general on this countries we have more democracies, we have more progress. it's also about the future of a lot of these countries and being able to work hand in hand with them to solve this crime. >> senator portman? >> first cindy thank you, for what you do in so many ways, cindy's been very involved with refugees and just -- human trafficking issue, globally, and now she's focused right here at home. and it would be shocking to most of my constituents, to hear that there are 100,000 every real community in our country and it's a great failing. and i got involved in part because we h