The phones ring without a break.
On one line, a girl says she was raped by a neighbor.
"Please do not tell my parents because they will stop me from going out of the house," the caller, who says she's 15, pleads with a help-line staffer. "Do not tell the police either because I don't want the police to land at my door."
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