Short Stuff: Franca Viola

In this episode, Josh and Chuck tell the remarkable true story of Franca Viola, a young Sicilian woman who became the first person to refuse a forced "rehabilitating marriage" in the 1960s. They explain the dark history of a Sicilian custom called the Fuitina, where women who were kidnapped and sexually assaulted faced enormous pressure to marry their attackers as the only way to restore their honor in society. When Franca boldly chose to press charges against her abductor instead of accepting this fate, she defied centuries of tradition, inspired other women to do the same, and ultimately helped change Italian law to stop allowing rapists to escape prosecution through forced marriage.