In this episode, I’m talking with Thien Ho, who successfully prosecuted serial killer and rapist, Joseph DeAngelo, known as The Golden State Killer/East Side Rapist. DeAngelo had escaped justice for 30 years leaving in his wake, dead, murdered, and raped girls, women, children, and men. He is now running for top DA, Sacramento, California. Find out how the victims of The Golden State Killer/Eastside Rapists got justice! And how others, didn’t get justice because of the running of the statute of limitations.

Thien had a long path to justice. At just 4 years old he and his family escaped the Communists in Vietnam, on a rickety fishing boat, risking death, torture, and capture finally landing in a refugee camp with nothing but the clothes on their back.

As a lead prosecutor for Sacramento County, Mr. Ho successfully prosecuted the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer and secured a sentence of 12 life terms that ensure the disgraced former police officer will die inside a California prison., DeAngelo is one of the nation’s most prolific and notorious serial killers who committed 13 murders and over 50 sexual assaults in 11 different jurisdictions throughout California.

This case has been the focus of HBO’s docuseries, I’ll be Gone in the Dark The case has also been featured on CNN, 20/20, and countless news outlets across the world.

Additionally, Thien Ho has supervised the Gangs and Hate Crime Unit and was a panelist for an Asian hate crime discussion sponsored by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).

As a member of the Legislative Committee for the California District Attorneys Association, Mr. Ho has analyzed pending bills and advocated on legislative matters for California.

He has drafted legislation to prosecute and get justice for victims of Sexually Violent Predators and has testified before the California Assembly regarding pending bills.

Now, the 47-year-old Democrat and lifelong prosecutor has announced he is running to succeed Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who is a candidate for State Attorney General (filling Kamala Harris’ seat before Harris ran for the US Senate in California).

Thien Ho is all about truth, and justice. One of his main platforms as a candidate for Sacramento District Attorney is justice for victims of child sexual abuse, rape, and sexual assault.

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Listeners, Please Note: Shari Karney, the host of Roar with Shari. . . All Things Justice for Women and Survivors is a survivor and a practicing attorney in California representing victims of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.

Even though Shari Karney is a licensed practicing attorney in the State of California practicing in the areas of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, this podcast is intended for informational purposes only, there is no expectation of confidentiality and is not intended nor should it be construed as legal advice. For legal advice, you should seek competent legal counsel. If you’re interested in speaking to Karney’s law practice they can be reached at www.karneyadvocates.com

Please also note that Karney Law is owned by Shari Karney. Karney is the founder of Roar as One. Roar as One is a nonprofit, Karney Law is a law firm and they are otherwise unaffiliated.

In this episode, I'm talking with Lisa Zarcone, the author of “The Unspoken Truth: A Memoir. Lisa shared with us her authentic, truthful, and raw look at child abuse, maternal mental illness, alcoholism and her family’s response to grieving the loss of a child. In the blink of an eye, we hear how it all changed before Lisa’s “pretty baby blues” and life became an unlivable, abusive, nightmare. The grim reality of a mentally ill mother and a dying brother turned her childhood into a fight for daily survival. Lisa shares her story of going from a little girl, safely tucked warm and safe in her bed with a loving family to protect her to being all alone with a raging mentally ill mother. How she survived and became a National Ambassador for a Child Abuse Organization.

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Sacramento District Attorney, Anne Marie Schubert, the first openly lesbian woman running for Attorney General of California. The job was formerly held by Vice President, Kamala Harris.

Her platform: Justice for Victims

She describes herself as a ‘tough-on-crime candidate’ who, in recent years, has helped put the Golden State Killer behind bars, and has been a leading force in the pursuit of justice through DNA evidence and cold-case prosecution.
In 2002, she formed the Cold Case Prosecution Unit and served as its first prosecutor.

While Anne Marie Schubert may be best known for the successful investigation, arrest, and conviction of the Golden State Killer, she has made a career of protecting kids from sexual predators and human trafficking and making sure violent criminals are held accountable for their crimes.

As District Attorney of Sacramento, Anne Marie Schubert has successfully put some of the state’s most notorious and violent criminals behind bars, including murderers, rapists and child molesters. She has aggressively prosecuted major corporations for practices that harm the environment and has worked to get illegal firearms off the streets.

If elected, Schubert, 57, would be the first openly gay state attorney general. She is the co-parent of two teenage boys who she loves dearly.

Even more significantly, Schubert is the rare political candidate vying for a major statewide office who is neither Republican nor Democrat but is running as an Independent.

Join us for an open, candid discussion of one woman’s powerful vision of justice for victims of child sexual abuse and sexual violence now running for Attorney General in California. She’s a SHEroe and justice warrior.

Listeners, Please Note Shari Karney, the host of Roar with Shari. . . All Things Justice for Women and Survivors is a survivor and a practicing attorney in California representing victims of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.

Even though Shari Karney is a licensed practicing attorney in the State of California practicing in the areas of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, this podcast is intended for informational purposes only, there is no expectation of confidentiality and is not intended nor should it be construed as legal advice. For legal advice, you should seek competent legal counsel. If you’re interested in speaking to Karney’s law practice they can be reached at www.karneyadvocates.com

Please also note that Karney Law is owned by Shari Karney. Karney is the founder of Roar as One. Roar as One is a nonprofit, Karney Law is a law firm and they are otherwise unaffiliated

I’m talking to social activist and rainmaker, Cherie Benjoseph, LCSW. She has a passion for empowering children in order to keep our kids safe. As co-founder of the KidSafe Foundation, she works with community leaders, kids, parents, guardians, foster care, and child-serving professionals to improve defining the ever-changing issues around protecting children. Because, in order to keep kids safe we need to educate adults, parents, and their caregivers as well. Predators, pedophiles, and perpetrators groom not only the kids, but the community as well.

Cherie Benjoseph says, “We teach children to recognize their feelings, go to their Safe Adults, and speak assertively when they feel uncomfortable. Through a fun—not fearful—interactive education, they can be taught what a right to safety really means and that there is strength and support in asking for help.”

Now, more than ever, it is critical that we work to keep our kids safe. Pornhub is the 10th most visited website in the world and has 113 Million downloads a day of child sexual abuse and child pornography. There is more child sexual assault, stalking, blackmailing of children through fear of their sexual images being circulated on the internet than ever before! Predators can abuse, assault, blackmail, and perpetrate online. Gaming, social media, are where many of today’s child predators are lurking posing as 13-year olds, and preying on our children. Just as technology changes, so must the protection of our kids so that the next generation can live healthy, productive, trauma-free lives. Cherie’s mission is to keep our KidSafe and free from child sexual abuse and exploitation. “It is attainable”, she says.

In this episode I’m talking with Allison Bressler, MA, and Gloria Sgrizzi, Love and Murder in Suburbia. A True Story. About “Big Little Lies” when it comes to intimate partner violence that occurs literally everywhere.

We are talking about domestic violence, dating violence, intimate partner violence, beatings, murder, and more hidden behind closed doors, a Big Little Lies, a dirty, little secret. Things that go on behind closed doors. One family’s tragedy underscores the peril of concealing abuse by an intimate partner.

During the early morning hours of September 9, 2002, Peter Clancy arrived at his house in upscale Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., armed with a large kitchen knife. He tried the garage, which did not respond to his opener, and then the front door, but the lock had been changed. So, he picked up a chair from the deck and hurled it through a kitchen window.

Debora Riggs Clancy, his wife and the mother of their four children was stabbed to death in front of two of her four children by her husband, Peter. She had recently filed a protective order against her husband Peter.

We are ROARING TODAY with two Sheroes Allison Bressler, MSA, and Gloria Sgrizzi who say, "Domestic violence knows no socioeconomic boundaries. It can happen in the wealthiest families and the most financially stressed,"

One in four women in the U.S. are victims of domestic violence according to Bressler and Sgrizzi.

"Statistically there are nine significant incidents before a call to the police,"

That's why Bressler and Sgrizzi have made it their life's mission to ending intimate partner violence as co-founders and co-directors of their private nonprofit, A Partnership for Change: They want to empower and teach the vulnerable before they are victimized, by educating the young, the less young, the poor, the incarcerated, the wealthy.

We will learn about their incredible programs, education, and insight that lead to the empowerment of anyone, any age, seeking control of their own relationship so they can be safe.

You do not have to wait to be a victim in order to take control, how to identify signs of potentially dangerous relationships whether you are currently in a relationship, preparing to leave, or have left.

Listeners, Please Note: Shari Karney, the host of Roar with Shari. . . All Things Justice for Women and Survivors is a survivor and a practicing attorney in California representing victims of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.

Even though Shari Karney is a licensed practicing attorney in the State of California practicing in the areas of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, this podcast is intended for informational purposes only, there is no expectation of confidentiality and is not intended nor should it be construed as legal advice. For legal advice, you should seek competent legal counsel. If you’re interested in speaking to Karney’s law practice they can be reached at https://karneyadvocates.com/

Please also note that Karney Law is owned by Shari Karney. Karney is the founder of Roar as One. Roar as One is a nonprofit, Karney Law is a law firm and they are otherwise unaffiliated.

In this episode, I’m talking with Senator Steele who reveals the first time she made a dramatic stand for survivors of sexual abuse. She bravely shared her own story of incest and child sexual abuse on the Arizona State Senate Floor.

Steele recounts the attacks, “My very first memory in life was being raped by my grandfather. She goes on to say that “I don’t have very many memories from my childhood,” those that I do have are not good. You don’t want to know them.”

She fought for justice for survivors of child sexual abuse when she introduced a bill to extend the statute of limitations for victims to bring a civil case against their abuser in Arizona. Current state law barred survivors from civil action after they turned 20 years old. According to Steele, “Republican leaders, so far, have blocked the bill.” Senator Steele supports survivors of child sexual abuse and the elimination of the statute of limitations for all child sexual abuse survivors nationwide.

Senator Steele is one of a growing number of survivors and women who are fighting for justice for survivors of sexual violence in State Capitols nationwide. These legislators of courage are working on behalf of women and survivors who have been beaten, raped, and even murdered by their abusers and predators. We salute Senator Steele.

In this episode, I am talking to Dr. Lois Lee, a pioneer and trailblazer in rescuing America’s sex trafficked and prostituted children here in the United States on a street near you.

She is the founder of Children of the Night and has rescued over 10,000 children from forced prostitution--she says, “that is more children than all of the other sex trafficking organizations combined.” Dr. Lee has taken on the gangs, drug and sex traffickers, and even the wealthy sex traffickers, to save children. Many kids who are sexually abused at home, run away, to take their chances on the streets. And are faced with even more horror, trafficking, forced into prostitution, and abuse. Roar with me to support justice for sexually abused, prostituted children, and trafficked children.

In this episode, I’m talking with Marissa Hoechstetter who was licked on her vagina by her OB-GYN, while pregnant with twins during an ordinary exam that was anything but ordinary.

What should have been an exciting and joyous experience being pregnant with twins, turned into a horrifying nightmare as Marissa says she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN, Dr. Hadden. Marissa quickly learned of other victims (over 200) who were also sexually assaulted at the hands of Dr. Hadden, including Evelyn Yang, wife of Andrew Yang Presidential Candidate, 2020.

Marissa and other warrior women survivors fought for the for the Adult Survivor Act (ASA) in New York and it PASSED!

Tune in and join us for Marissa’s amazing story of how she turned her pain into purpose and went from victim to justice warrior.

Listeners, Please Note:

Shari Karney, the host of Roar with Shari. . . All Things Justice for Women and Survivors is a survivor and a practicing attorney in California representing victims of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.

Even though Shari Karney is a licensed practicing attorney in the State of California practicing in the areas of child sexual abuse and sexual assault, this podcast is intended for informational purposes only, there is no expectation of confidentiality and is not intended nor should it be construed as legal advice. For legal advice, you should seek competent legal counsel. If you’re interested in speaking to Karney’s law practice they can be reached at www.karneyadvocates.com

Please also note that Karney Law is owned by Shari Karney. Karney is the founder of Roar as One. Roar as One is a nonprofit, Karney Law is a law firm and they are otherwise unaffiliated.