(Reuters) - For sexual assault survivors, Christine Blasey Ford emerged as a new hero on Thursday, triggering a surge in calls to a national rape hotline as she told senators that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were teenagers.
But even as many saw her nervous yet assured testimony as a landmark moment for the #MeToo movement, the scepticism, indifference and even scorn she faced, both from Republican senators and online critics, was disturbing to victims and their advocates.
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