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The Miss USA pageant will be held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on June 8th, and one of the contestants will be a woman who was conceived as a result of forcible rape. 

Miss Valerie Gatto was crowned Miss Pennsylvania 2014 in December of last year.  She has made a central platform in her competition the need to provide greater support for victims of sexual assault. 

The beauty queen revealed that her mother was raped at knife-point when she was 19 years old and claims that the perpetrator planned to murder her mother after the sexual assault, but that she was …