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TEEN DATING VIOLENCE IS REAL AND RAMPANT

 

EARLIER this month, in Northern California, 17-year-old Rebecca Layson was brutally murdered and raped allegedly by her 17-year-old boyfriend and 18-year-old male friend. This tragedy occurred just weeks after California Assembly Resolution 100 was introduced to declare February National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.

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