Donald Trump world-famous misogynist with decades of assault allegations was brought to justice by none other than a group of sexual assault survivors.

A Manhattan federal jury found on Tuesday that the former president sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in New York City in the mid-1990s. Carroll, a longtime advice columnist, filed a civil suit against Trump for battery and defamation and was awarded a combined $5 million for the jurys findings on her allegations.

Carroll was only able to sue for battery over two decades after the assault took place because of the work of sexual assault survivors. About two dozen survivors worked tirelessly to pass the Adult Survivors Act , a New York state law enacted in November that allows people who were sexually abused a one-time chance to file civil lawsuits despite statutes of limitations. They spent hundreds of unpaid hours away from their families and friends, taking time off of work, all to fly to Albany to change the law.

E. Jean got into that courtroom because a collective group of survivors fought exhaustively and relentlessly to change the law, Alison Turkos, one of the survivors who worked to get the Adult Survivors Act passed, told HuffPost.

I want people to remember that survivors had to fight to change the law, to open the door for this case to happen. And if the law was not changed, this verdict would not happen.

It took over three years for the survivors to get the law passed, and they were building upon the previous work of activists who spent 13 years lobbying for the New York Child Victims Act , which became law in 2019.

Drew Dixon, another survivor who worked to pass the Adult Survivors Act, said she was fighting back tears when she heard the verdict.

I am profoundly moved that I played a small part along with my fellow survivor activists in creating a path for E. Jean Carroll, whose bravery and humanity and grace and vulnerability has absolutely taken my breath away, said Dixon, a writer and producer in the music industry.

The sheer force of will of this group of survivors was incredible, she added. A group who just insisted that this window open because trauma takes time and these statute of limitations are unscientific and unaligned with the way the psychology of trauma really unfolds.