Jody Plauche'

Jody Plauche'

Jody Plauche' made national headlines in March
1984 when he was abducted by his karate teacher
and taken to Los Angeles, Ca. FBI officials
rescued Jody and his abductor was arrested. Upon
his karate teacher’s return to Baton Rouge, La.,
Jody’s father, Gary Plauche’, in front of a local
television camera, shot and killed the man who
kidnapped and sexually molested his son. The
sexual abuse had occurred for a period of more
than one year.

Since 1995, while studying for his degree at
Louisiana State University, he has been speaking
out against "Sexual Violence" and in December
2004, he was named the 6th Annual Governor’s
Pathfinder Victim/Activist of the Year for the state
of Pennsylvania. His story is one of survival and
his message brings hope, especially to those victims
and significant others of sexual violence.