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Ipu Lefiti

Dear Editor, First time offender vs. first time raped. The Public Defender loves to play the ‘ First time offenders card’, which describes the defendant who has no previous criminal record. (But has a trail of unreported sexual misconducts with same victim.) So how do you put back to normal a child...
Dear Editor, DHSS needs urgent expansion of their shelters. Their current situation is demanding it. With the increase of resident young adults suffering from domestic and sexual violence, battered women with children, homeless, abandoned, underage pregnancy, clients held in custody due to...
Sen. Tauaa S. Vaouli during a Samoa News interview
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Chemical castration is a frightening thought in an adult’s mind; but it is no comparison to a child's frightened, paralyzed young and immature mind while being sexually violated, abused or raped,” said Ipu Lefiti, a local victim's rights advocate. Lefiti was responding...
Rendering of proposed new Fono Building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoan Representative, Fialupe Fiaui Lutu, has re-introduced her bill aiming to increase the minimum marriage age for girls from 14 to 18. The reintroduction of the bill has been welcomed by woman's advocacy group, Pae ma Auli, which conducted a survey to gauge...