MILWAUKEE -- Notice more people wearing denim this Wednesday? It's because April 25 is a national day of sexual assault prevention. It's called "Denim Day."
It began after a rape conviction was overturned in Italy because the victim was wearing tight jeans.
Rosalind Metcalf, who runs non-profit organization Healing Starts Today spoke about her harrowing experience of being abducted and held captive at just 15-years-old.
Metcalf shared how she was sex trafficked after she was kidnaped while walking home from school after getting off her school bus. She published her harrowing experience in a book titled Smoking Out The Shadows.
The suspect who abducted her back in 1996 is now in federal prison for child sex trafficking.
Rosalind tells us it is so important to believe victims who come forward and empower their truth. Still it does not mean these crimes will just end overnight.
"It's just really horrible that were being looked at as if its okay, or your not a victim because you have on fitted jeans, or you have on accessories - things that women love to wear," said Metcalf.
Leaders for the City of Milwaukee's Office of Violence Prevention even created a web page to promote people to wear denim on Wednesday, January 25 called DenimDayMKE.org.
