Breaking The Silence: Bringing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Into The Light

Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 10

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:01:22 GMT

On this episode, we talk with project partner and Pastor Eric Munson. Pastor Munson has been in full time mininstry for 30 years and is currently lead pastor at New Life Community Church in Shelby Montana. Connie and Eric discuss the roles and challenges that faith leaders encounter when faced with domestic violence in the church and how they can best help victims.

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 9

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:59:30 GMT

In this episode, we meet Angela Meyers, who specializes in Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Counseling. Angela has been working with Hi-Line's Help for many years offering her counseling services to victims of dometic violence and sexual assault.

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 8

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:09:56 GMT

This video podcast is the fourth in a series where we talk with Angela Mastrovito about what happened to her daughter, Rebekah Grace Barsotti in Montana on July 20, 2021 when she and her beloved dog disappeared.

In part 4, we continue talking to Rebekah’s mom Angela Mastrovito about the events that happened within the first year after her daughter’s disappearance. Angela describes the countless obstacles that she and her husband encountered from law enforcement and other agencies instead of the help they expected, the inconsistancies of evidence and lack of anwers to questions that any parent would have.

Despite the domestic violence that occurred, Law enforcement told Angela that her daughter’s perpetrator would “never be considered a person of interest and refused to investigate in that direction.

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 7

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:26:34 GMT

This video podcast is the third in a series where we talk with Angela Mastrovito about what happened to her daughter, Rebekah Grace Barsotti in Montana on July 20, 2021 when she and her beloved dog disappeared. We continue talking to Rebekah’s mom Angela Mastrovito about the events that happened within the first several weeks after her daughter’s disappearance. Angela describes the countless obstacles that she and her husband encountered from law enforcement and other agencies instead of the help they expected, forcing them into having to do much of the footwork and investigating themselves, despite the pushback and downright refusal of the professional agencies and the court system to help in many instances.

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 6

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:00:32 GMT

This is part 2 of a series of interviews with Angela Mastrovito, who's daughter Rebekah Grace Barsotti disappeared under suspicious circumstances in July of 2021 near Missoula, Montana. In this episode, Angela talks about Rebekah's abusive marriage, her fight to leave and start her life over and the beginning of circumstances that just do not add up. If you have not yet listened to part 1, I encourage you to do so. Thank you for listening!

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 5

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:51:40 GMT

Hi and welcome to Hi-Line’s Helps podcast, Breaking the Silence, Bringing domestic violence and sexual assault into the light. This podcast is the start of several episodes speaking with Angela Mastrovito. Angela’s daughter, Rebekah Grace disappeared on July 20th 2021 near Missoula mt. Her vehicle and personal belongings were found off Interstate 90, but Rebeka and her dog were missing.

What has unfolded in the 3 years since that day is truly unbelievable. In the next several episodes, Angela talks to us about what she and her family have been through, the heartache of feeling invisible and still not knowing for certain what happened to Rebekah, along with the barriers and brick walls she has encountered from all angles. She tells us about Rebekahs abusive relationship with her husband and her efforts to leave and begin her life again.

Angela’s love for her daughter keeps her fighting every day for justice, no matter how heartbreaking. This mother’s cry will not be silenced.

I feel that so often in interviews like this, it tends to jump right to what happened. I would like to take this first episode to get to know who Rebekah was. She was someone who was quiet in demeanor but full of life; adventurous in spirit and radiated light and love for those around her. Rebekah was a beautiful young woman, with so much life left to live and love left to give and no one should ever forget WHO she was.

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 4

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:59 GMT

Welcome! On Episode 4 of Breaking the Silence, We have a conversation with Shana. Shana is Hi-Line's Help's financial manager and advocate. Her and Connie discuss what brought her to HLHAS, balancing the role of Pastor's wife and Advocate, along with barrier's to starting over for victims due to the high cost of starting over and the importance that programs such as HLHAS plays to helping those struggling.

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 3

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:00:55 GMT

Welcome! On this episode, Connie visits with Autumn, an experienced advocate who is also well versed in the legal and judicial system and how a victim has to navigate it. They talk about Autumns past and how that effects her being an advocate, along with healing after trauma, frustrations with Law Enforcement and the court system revictimizing victims and more. Sit back and enjoy getting to know Autumn!

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 2

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:44:14 GMT

Welcome to the second episode of Breaking the Silence: Bringing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Into The Light. In this episode, we are talking with Anna, who is a victim advocate with our program. Connie and Anna discuss what brought Anna to Hi-Line's Help and a few of her frustrations with the current legal system when working with victims, especially male victims. We hope you enjoy getting to know Anna!

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Welcome to Breaking The Silence Episode 1

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:38:34 GMT

An introduction to Hi-Line's Help for Abused Spouses, a victim advocacy program that serves all victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. In this episode, we talk to Connie Huffman, Executive Director, about the how the program started in the 1970's and what the program looks like today, along with the services the program provides.

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