News 16 November 2018

Girls training to fight back

Stories headline the news about young girls who go missing or are found dead, even in small-town Iowa where they may have thought they were safe.Of crimes against women, young girls are at a higher threat of being targeted, and now Nashua-Plainfield junior high girls are learning self defense in class from gym teacher Jill Kalvig and Iowa State Trooper Brian Sinnwell.“Always put up a good fight,” Sinnwell told the girls, noting attackers might not expect their victims to fight back and the sooner a girl can get away the safer she will be.— For more on this story, see the Nov. 15 Nashua Reporter.

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