Charlotte Oliver

Kelsey Rice poses for a photo on Main Street in Brattleboro in March 2025.

Alerts to crime victims in Vermont are full of flaws

State employees working with victims say the system doesn't work - some even tell people not to sign up. For one woman, an 'unbelievable gap' led to life-altering danger.

-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on bail after an arrest hours earlier. The courts had ordered him to stay away. He didn't.

He assaulted her that March 2019 night, she said, threatening to kill them both - and not for the first time.

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