NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Brian Amaral/NJ.com
on April 14, 2014
Mark Crawford, a resident of Avenel, was honored last week by the state attorney general for his work advocating for victims of sexual abuse.
Crawford, the state director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, was selected for the first-ever Ronald W. Reagan award by acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman.
“Because of Mark’s efforts, many individuals, after living in years of silence and shame, learned of the predators’ crimes and came forward themselves, finally getting help and holding their offender accountable,” state Sen. Joseph Vitale, who represents Woodbridge and nominated Crawford for the award, said in a news release today.
When he was a child, Crawford was abused by his parish priest. Since 1987, he’s been advocating for victims of sex abuse, helping reform the state’s charitable immunity laws and visiting the White House in 2010 to discuss sexual violence, according to Vitale.
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