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Domestic Violence Crime Growing In Our Area

Written by Steve Broussard
Monday, 06 October 2008
THEY ARE MARCHING TOGETHER FOR CHANGE.......HONORING VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. OVER 100 GATHERED IN DELEON SQUARE AT NOON TO GIVE HEIGHTENED AWARENESS OF THIS CRIMINAL ABUSE THAT IS GROWING IN AMERICA AND EVEN IN TEXAS JUST LAST YEAR IN OUR STATE, 130 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE KILLED DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AND MORE PEOPLE STAY IN THAT SITUATION , FOR THE SIMPLE REASON, THEY ARE TERRIFIED TO REPORT IT OR MOVE ON. <"If she ever calls the police, if she ever turns them in, they will kills her , so often herself may not be able to say anything.">Elena M. Torres\Mid-Coast Family Services DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR CATHERINE FIELDS TELLS OF HER VIOLENT PAST OF HOW HER FATHER WOULD BEAT THEIR MOTHER. SHE MARRIED YOUNG AT 16, BUT HER HUSBAND TOO WAS ABUSIVE.<"He tried to kill me. And I was running. I had on a slip. I did'nt have a chance to put on my dress. And I was running down the road and the neighbor saw it and saw him chasing me. And they called the police and they said they had gotten 13 calls.">Catherine Fields\Domestic Violence Survivor DESPITE HER HUSBAND BEING ARRESTED, HE ABUSED HER FOR MANY YEARS, UNTIL SHE COULD GET AWAY TO HER SISTERS HOME. ANOTHER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM TELLS HOW SHE FELT AN URGENCY TO TELL HER STORY TO HELP OTHERS. <"I've been severely beaten, my daughter as well. And at that time, we moved to a shelter in the Bay Area, where we lived in League City in Webster. Thank God for That shelter. And they sent me here to Mid-Coast.">Peggy West\Domestic Violence Survivor LAST YEAR 200 VICTIMS WERE AT VICTORIA SHELTER RUN BY MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES. AT ONE TIME, THE SHELTER CAN HOLD 26 PEOPLE. THE AGENCY PLANS TO BUILD ANOTHER SHELTER THAT CAN HOLD MORE VICTIMS OF THIS VIOLENT CRIME THAT SEEMS TO BE GROWING IN THIS AREA.
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