A powerful new TV documentary opens with woman after woman, all farmworkers, talking about being sexually harassed, abused and raped by bosses in the fields. They say it's the hidden price they pay to stay in this country and provide for their families. “The foreman told my father, 'We have no work for you, but I can hire your daughters,'” one woman said in Spanish. “They look at you like they own you, and whenever they want, they can have you,” added a second woman. And another: “He would say, 'One more time, one more time,' over and over and over.” “Rape in the Fields,” which debuts at 9 p.m. Tuesday on PBS as part of the “Frontline” series, is sure to shock, anger, even sicken viewers....
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