Jane Castor stalking just like raping only worse

She stomps her foot and shouts: "It's, 'This is what I did! This is how I healed!' " In the time since the episode happened in another state, she has met her husband and moved to Tampa. Her husband, 40-year-old Courtney Connell, was among 273 men who took a pledge not to remain silent on sexual abuse. "It builds the commitment," Connell said. "It's more than just saying it." Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Ian Beckles led the pledge alongside Tampa Bay Lightning CEO Tod Leiweke, Hillsborough County Commission Chairman Ken Hagan and former state Rep. Jim Davis. Take Back the Night has outgrown its roots in Hyde Park, said Marilyn Bray, the center's outreach and empowerment coordinator. The annual event drew more than 100 volunteers and about 80 collaborating organizations to Hixon park this year. "We're all in this together," Bray said. "We don't have to suffer in silence." A statistic repeated throughout the day: One in four women experience some form of sexual violence. For men, it's one in six. Tampa police Chief Jane Castor called upon the community to spread the understanding that violence against women is unacceptable. "It's everyone's responsibility," she said. University of South Florida student Matthew Rooney felt inspired to take up the cause. "It's really a men's issue," said Rooney, 28, a volunteer with Men Stopping Violence Against Women. "It's up to us to speak up and stop the violence." At Sunday's event, hundreds reveled in a flash mob and followed survivors in an empowerment march around the park, past law enforcement officers standing watch in front of their vehicles with the lights flashing. During a candlelight vigil, survivors and supporters guarded their lights carefully against the wind to spread a flame from a single candle. At the end of the night, some survivors took turns standing at a microphone, letting their words amplify into the big city space. Through poems and stories, they spoke of rape and survival. People lingered late, past dusk, to listen. When they left, they walked past the clotheslines of T-shirts again, the messages still strong. To a woman named Karen, her family scrawled in purple marker on a shirt: "We are so proud of you. You won, you walked away & stayed alive for us." Stephanie Wang can be reached at swang@tampabay.com or (813) 661-2443. [Last modified: Apr 29, 2012 10:58 PM] Copyright 2012 Tampa Bay Times 0 Important 3 Inspiring 0 Sad 0 Angry 0 LOL Post a new comment honestwordssliceami­nuteAbuse PolicyCommenting Guidelines Share to: Post 1 Comment honestwordssliceami­nuteLess than a minute ago Jane Castor, if this is such an important event for you, I call on you RATHER THAN THE WHOLE CITY TO STOP HARASSING MY FAMILY. STALKING IS AS BAD AS RAPE. You shouldn't HAVE a spare cop to do nothing but follow me around while women and children die and get shot dead and murdered all around us while you hunt for tax cheats. I'm not GIVING YOU MY PROPERTY. And Cnytha Clark !!! Damn straight, baby !!!! I did this. I survived. Now I have Tampa's police chief and others treating me worse than any abusive X could have right up to moving pigs (not cops but actual pigs posing as people) into my neighborhood to harass us and if I call the police they take the side of the criminal. Called them once. But Jane has now upgraded it. TOO BAD JANE. You're no better than a rapist for doing so. Reply 0 Subscribe to the Times Click here for convenient home delivery. Want More Breaking News? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

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I gotta be honest. I just find it hilarious the shit y'all rely on. What the FUCK ever. And then WITH THESE IDIOTS you take that fucking nag and you beat it to smithereens. I glimmer you don't think much. LOL. Fine. But the porch clowns. To you porc clowns: I find it fucking HILARIOUS that your lives so revolve so around me and your fucking porch. You don't even get to do what YOU want to do on Friday night. You get to do what I want to do. LMFAO !!!!!! Next week I might want to go to a lime green hat faggot party. No. Those are Tuesdays, right? You all still got the puerto rican flag flying over your declarations of lerve which seem mainly involced WITH ME???????????????????? On to the next one on to the next one. LOL Nah. Stay a while. This is cool with me.