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El Cajon Blvd   El Cajon Boulevard / Photo by Anita DeFrancesco/ Author   Daybreak along El Cajon Boulevard can be a rude awakening and a reminder of the road’s most illicit reputation. El Cajon was a hub for prostitutes. Donna Gentile was one of the girls...

All In A Days Sex Work By Blair Hopkins PODCAST International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers All In A Day's (Sex) Work Documentary December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Started in Seattle in 2003 by Dr. Annie Sprinkle and...

  “From Witness to Victim: the Story of Donna Gentile” by Anita DeFrancesco https://retreatsfromoblivion.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/cropped-retreats-from-oblivion-logo-011.jpg "...

Joyful Heart Foundation  Mariska Hargitay ( Law and Order Actress) One in three women and one in six men are survivors of sexual violence. Every 73 seconds in the United States, someone is sexually assaulted. Four to five children die every day in this country as a...

Family, Former Attorney of Queens Woman Who Fell to Her Death in Vice Sting Say She Was Sexually Assaulted, Pressured to Become an Informant Yang Song fell four stories onto a sidewalk in Flushing, Queens on the night of November 25th. An officer with the New York...

Randolph Pitts, Lumiere Films ( Leaving Las Vegas) The Donna Gentile Story: The Life and Murder of an Innocent Runaway : San Diego's NHI Murder Victim Anita DeFrancesco Rosey Publishing, 2018 - Human trafficking victims - 214 pages 1 Review The REAL STORY AS TOLD BY...

Anita, I remember reading about your cousin when she died and it haunted me and still does. Her face was so sweet, and as an Italian American originally from backeast--but having been in San Diego since the late 70's-I related to her. I have prayed for her "if" she...

Collingswood NJ Book Festival October 5,  2019  ( sold  10 books, which is good for a book festival self publisher)

It has come to my knowledge that Detective Dr. Thomas Streed has left the planet. June 2024  RIP my friend He worked for 30 years on Donnas cold case murder. I deeply appreciate and thank him for his support and courage. We met in July 2019  in San Diego  where I then...

I moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to find Donna's killer.  As I continued my journey in 1994, it led me to a convention at California State University where I met Norma Jean Almodovar, former LAPD officer and author of “Cop to Call Girl.” This is where I received a...