Clark Fredericks

The law stated that you had to come forward at age 18.

You had a two-year window from 18 to 20 to file a lawsuit.

Who's getting raped at 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and coming forward at 18 to file a lawsuit?

Your life's shattered.

You're not doing that.

So like the law, like...

It was basically a dead law.

Nobody was using it.

And he said, I know advocates who have been working for 15 years to get a new law adopted.

why don't you become an advocate?

Maybe your story's so over the top, you can push some of the senators holding it up.

And he goes, I think it would be healthy for you to do that kind of work.

I was like, I agree.

He goes, I'll have some advocates in my office in two weeks.

He goes, and come back then.

And I went back and I met this guy, Fred Marigliano.

He and I became really close.

And I met the other advocates and we started calling on senators.

And two years, I was in Trenton all the time.

And two years after becoming advocate, I was in Trenton for the vote on the new law and it passed unanimously.