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Alleged victims of the Stoners find each other online and band together to demand justice. But they run up against police and prosecutors who have different ideas than they do about the best path to accountability.

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17-year-old Aryalle Stoner runs away from home and tells the police that her father, Ronnie Stoner, has been sexually abusing her for years. The cursory investigation that follows is representative of a larger issue with child sex abuse investigations in Louisville.

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Allegations pile up, but Child Protective Services declines to investigate and the school district continues to promote Ronnie Stoner. 

We include an update at the end of the episode. 

“The Girls” is a 4-part series from the Louisville Public Media’s investigative podcast, Dig.

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In 2023, 17-year-old Abbie Jones and her family accuse her high school football coach, Donnie Stoner, of child sex abuse. Another Louisville woman, Alexis Crook, says she was abused by Donnie too, and his twin brother Ronnie, when they were coaches at her private Christian school almost 20 years earlier. Reporter Jess Clark looks at how the school system and local government responded to these accusations so many years apart. 
“The Girls” is a 4-part series from the Louisville Public Media’s investigative podcast, Dig.

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After next Monday, doctors may not be able to mail people the abortion pill Mifepristone. That would increase barriers, but experts say it won't stop people's ability to get the pills in the mail. Getting abortion pills without a doctor’s oversight isn’t new—in fact its history begins nearly 50 years ago, in Brazil. Listen to "The Network," Season 24 of NPR's Embedded, about how a loosely connected movement has been helping people access the pills this way for decades:

Episode 1: lnk.to/phh5a9 
Episode 2: lnk.to/Bw6QHD
Episode 3: lnk.to/MHSBG1

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