JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION "When Mariska Hargitay started playing Oliva Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the content of the scripts, as well as the work she did to prepare for the role, opened her eyes to the staggering statistics about sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse in the United States. She received hundreds, then thousands of letters and emails from survivors disclosing their stories of abuse, many for the first time. She wanted to answer - really answer - those letters, to address the suffering they described, and honor acts of courage they represented.
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