Florida senator Lauren Book slams 'sick' teens who stole her nude photos – after she was 'raped by her nanny as a child'
FLORIDA Senator Lauren Book has ripped some sick teens who stole nude photos from her phone – years after she was raped by her nanny as a child.
The Democratic senator has often shared her traumatic story about how she was sexually abused by her nanny for six years when she was a child.
As a child and into her teenage years, Book battled anorexia, sleepless nights and crying fits.
In 2002, the nanny pleaded guilty to five felony charges and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, later extended to 25 years.
Years after her experience, Book has helped sexually abused child victims via her nonprofit organization, Lauren's Kids. While also fighting for stronger penalties for sex offenders.
Now, Book has been victimized again by someone trying to extort her by threatening to reveal nude photos stolen from her.
“I hate that this happened to me,” Book told The Associated Press on Monday.
“I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. But I’ll take it, because I know that I can do something about it.”
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During her investigation, she learned that the images had been bought and traded online since 2020.
Book is fighting back by evoking her power as a legislator, seeking a new law to try and prevent others from being victimized.
The bill sponsored by Book would strengthen Florida's revenge porn law by making it a felony to steal sexually explicit images from someone's phone or other digital devices.
It would also make sharing altered or created sexually explicit images, known as deep fakes, a felony.
Book called the international trade and sale of images stolen from people a sick, perverted subculture that pays more for pictures of celebrities and elected officials but also victimizes women who aren’t well known.
'I WOULD HAVE ENDED MY LIFE'
“Truth be told, if it weren’t for my children, I would have ended my life,” an emotional Book told the AP.
“It brought up all of the stuff. All of it that you think that you’ve gotten under your belt, that you’ve fixed it, and you’ve changed it, and then all of a sudden, here it is in front of your face.”
Yet, the conversations people had on the website made the horror worse.
“They were reading about who I was and talking about how I’m a survivor of rape, so let’s try to get some rape videos.
"Can we get some of her getting raped, killed, tortured? Can we make some of that? Can we find it? How can we get it?” Book said.
The senator said she had images of her and her husband on her phone, as well as a shared picture of her post-operation photo of her lumpectomy scar.
Book doesn’t know how they were stolen, but investigators told her the images the teenager used to try to extort her were sent from virtual private networks in Sweden and Russia.
“There are still things up there. Still, they’ll never be gone. People were buying it, people were trading it, and this is not unique.
"This is happening every single day, to women predominantly,” she said.
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