“I was raped”: assembly member opens up in interview about cuts to survivor programs

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NEW YORK — For years she kept it a secret. But, just a minute after starting an interview about cuts that could harm victims of sexual assault, she decided to reveal it. "These services save lives," said Catherine Cruz, a member of the Queens Assembly, visibly moved. "I know because it happened to me. I was the victim of a rape." Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz commented that she had no plans to reveal that she had been raped, when she was "thirty a…