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FRONTLINE: Rape In The Fields

Maricruz Ladino (pictured), whose story is featured, is one of many women who say they have been sexually assaulted while working in America's fields, farms and factories.
Courtesy of Andrés Cediel
Maricruz Ladino (pictured), whose story is featured, is one of many women who say they have been sexually assaulted while working in America's fields, farms and factories.

Airs Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

For the women who pick and process the food we eat every day, getting sexually assaulted, and even raped, is sometimes part of the job. FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America's fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Rape in the Fields

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"FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman

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