Purple Alerts: Can They Help Victims?
The Purple Alert may or may not be the right answer, but the fact remains that society is not doing enough to protect victims. Too often, with the lack of support from the police, families are forced to work on their own to find their missing loved ones.
Sarah Emma Edmonds: Civil War Hero
In an effort to hide from her abuser, she started calling herself Emma Edmonds, and began working in a shop that made women’s hats. Emma succeeded in this endeavor, and was co-owner of the establishment quickly. Her story then took a turn that is familiar to so many survivors of abuse. She escaped; found personal success; and then her abuser caught up with her.
Desperate to Escape:The Link Between Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence
Many victims of human trafficking have also been victims of domestic violence in their past. Childhood sexual abuse is very common in trafficking victims, and the emotional and mental damage from the abuse often leads to adulthood issues that could put a person at further risk of being trafficked later in life.
My Survivor Story
In March 2019, I began dating a man with whom I lived with in the back of a refrigerated truck. The first 24 hours we were together, he held an axe over my head, and tried to convince me he was my boyfriend I had dated long-term reciting details of our personal life, with whom […]
My Story Erikah Ojaniemi, Survivor
I’d like to share my story with everyone. Let me start off here, my name is Erikah, I’m 28 years old and domestic violence ultimately ruined the rest of my life. And it all started when I met my children’s father in February 2006 when I was 15 years old. A couple of months before […]
10 Years Later: The Joe Paterno Saga
As a survivor, we normally assume that most people think like us. Maybe they have not experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse, but you assume that they still find these things as abhorrent as you find them. It was disheartening to hear these people bend over backwards to defend a cover-up of sexual assault towards children.
