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Mariska Hargitay looks slender in a royal blue dress at the Empire State Building in NYC as she shines a light on Sexual Assault Awareness month
Mariska Hargitay spoke out for victims of sexual assault as she helped shine a light on the problem at the Empire State Building in New York City Friday.
'When I first encountered the country's sexual assault and domestic violence statistics on SVU, my head just exploded,' said the actress who has starred as detective and now Captain Olivia Benson on the hit police show for a quarter century. The Law and Order: SVU actress and activist, 60, who created Joyful Heart Foundation, spoke of the work she has done for some 20 years in an impassioned speech before throwing the switch to light up the iconic building 'When I first encountered the country's sexual assault and domestic violence statistics on SVU, my head just exploded,' said the actress who has starred as Olivia Benson on the hit police show for a quarter century, noting there nearly half a million victim age 12+ in the US annually
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