Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers – here's how the US could reduce their risk

Mexican migrant workers harvest parsley on a farm in Wellington, Colo. John Moore/Getty Images

Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC’s “American Crime” took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a young woman being brutally raped in a field by her supervisor.

“People die all the time on that farm. Nobody cares. Women get raped, regular,” another character tells a police interrogator.