When the system failed Danielle Hicks-Best
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When she was 11, Danielle Hicks-Best reported being raped — twice within weeks. But then she was the one who was arrested.
Danielle Hicks-Best, 18, was raped in Washington for the first time when she was 11 and again a few weeks later. Neither case was prosecuted, and, in the second case, she was charged with filing a false report and convicted. She spent years in and out of detention and treatment centers. Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post
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For years, her parents urged police to charge the suspects and sought an explanation for her treatment.
NASA tried one last time to contact its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, but declared it dead on Feb. 13, 2019, 15 years after arriving at the Red Planet. The solar-powered rover has been silent for eight months, victim of one of the most intense dust storms in decades.