Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!!???????????

This little girl named Natalie tested positive for crack cocaine and marijuana at birth and she was born 6- weeks premature, caused by the effects of her mother doing those drugs. Being six week premature, she weighed less than five pounds when born.

When Natalie was ten weeks old Kempe reached out towards her family and preformed developmental evaluations on Natalie. They helped her get over the "bump" of being a premature baby and already being addicted to 2 drugs. Because of these, by the 4th visit she had caught up for her age and by the 5th she was verbally ahead for her age.

She was adopted by her foster parents along with her brothers and sister. They say that she is smart, loved, healthy, and will have a productive life.

To be addicted to drugs by your mother's doing, and I thought that mother's are supposed to be loving and caring.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=176

Fighting Back to Survive

I found a story about a really brave woman who survived a three armed robber attack.
Her name was Susan, and this attack took place in August of 1997 in the city of Jacksonville, Florida.
Susan lives on a property with her husband ten minutes from town.
One night she was watching TV while her husband, Mike, was sound asleep in the bedroom.
All of a sudden she hears her doorknob jiggling, and then her front door comes crashing down with three armed robbers following through.
Her first instinct was to dash for her bedroom, and while she did that, one of the robbers tried to pursue her, but fell when jumping over her couch.
She got to her bedroom and placed her back against the door, and screamed for her husband to get up and to help her. He joined her on her task to stop the robbers from coming through the door. Then there was a sudden detonating noise.
The robbers started shooting at them. Susan was shot in the chest, and her husband was shot in the shoulder. Even though Mike was harmed, he fought the robbers to try and keep them away from Susan. He pushed them into the living room and continued to fight them there.
The fight gave Susan time to get her phone and call 911. She gave the police her address and said, " We're being shot, get here now".
She was bleeding immensely from the gun wound to her chest, but she knew that if she gave up the fight, she was probably going to die. So she went to the gun cabinet beside her bed, grabbed Mike's .22 caliber pistol, took the safety off, and cocked it.
Meanwhile, Mike was getting beaten and pistol whipped in her living room. She went out to the living room, and not wanting to shoot her husband, shot over the robbers heads to see if they would run away, but they didn't. Instead, one of the robbers actually rushed after her. So she spun around, and ran back to her bedroom. She thought the robber was going to come in through the bedroom door, but he didn't. So she peeked out from her door, and saw the robber's arm sticking out from behind her fridge, gun in hand, waiting for her to come out.
But what the robbers didn't know, was that Susan had like a secret passageway that led from her bedroom to her living room and back to her dining room. When she took that "secret passageway", she ended up standing behind the robber that was waiting for her to come out, and she open fired.
She shot him twice, and he staggered outside screaming, " The f-ing b**ch shot me, kill her!"
One of the robbers had fled the scene in the gang's vehicle, and the guy that Susan shot collapsed out on her driveway. There was only one robber left in the house, and he shot Mike in the torso and shot Susan in the chest again, making her lung collapse. She ran all the way back in her bedroom, too shocked to know that she had been shot. She thought her husband was dead, until she heard the robber ask him, "Where are the f-ing keys to that truck!" And she heard her husband reply saying that they were in the bedroom, and she was in the bedroom.
She knew that the robber was going to come into the bedroom, so she started praying for herself and for her husband. The next thing she knew, the robber was holding a gun to her head and was screaming at her to give him the keys to the truck. When the robber left with their truck, Susan hurried towards Mike. A police officer arrived at the scene and stumbled over the robber's corpse in the driveway. Then paramedics arrived and rushed Susan and Mike to the hospital. They had received life threatening injuries, but survived.
This story blew me away. I was bewildered at all the violence that was used, and how this couple defended themselves against it. I bet their hearts were racing at like 200 beats per minute. I wonder if the robbers also get scared while attacking someone. Maybe attacking someone is just as scary as being attacked, especially if the person that is being attacked fights back.
The two other robbers were caught and put in jail for life.
Susan believes that she survived because she needed to tell people her story, just in case someone fell into the same situation that she was in, so that they could react the same way that she did.
http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 27

I Was Abused

A women called Patty was abused and controlled by a man for 3 and 1/2 years. It first began with name calling, then pushing and mussing, but then came the kicking and slapping, spitting came along and punching came last. Sometimes she passes out on night and wakes up with urine because of being close to death. The man pored bear all over her, IN FRONT OF HER 4 YEAR OLD SON.

She did not let her have relationships with her friends because he deleted her contacts. He will not let her even talk t her MOTHER because of the man. She cried a lot and she felt isolated.

She prayed and tried to seek GOD, she started fasting and reading the bible and going to church.

What helped her was THE FATER THE SON SND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

http://www.wadv.org/Survivors.htm

Wanderer

Jenna was walking around a hotel parking lot at the age of four. She could barely speak, and couldn't sit long enough to color a picture, and to top it off she did not know her last name and refused to sleep in her bed along with overeating and hiding of her food.

She was diagnosed with PTSD (Post-Tramautic Stress Disorder) and accepted into the Kempe Therapuetic Preschool and received state of the art care. She now can sit and color a picture, listen to stories, she can eat meals slower, and she can sleep on her bedroom floor (still doesn't like her bed, and realizes that she has her foster parents for comfort.

To be four years old and out on your own. It must have given her the habits of hiding food, in the streets you always save some for later. I feel really bad for what she had to go through.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=389

she would do anything for her daughter

her husband had left the house for his night shift job. Melissa and her 2 year old daughter where at home alone. It all stared when they were watching TV in the living room, then they sleep their because it was hot upstairs and they were tired, so Melissa was locking her house and getting ready for bed. She had woke up because she had felt something sharp on her neck on felt uncomfortable on her back she had thought it was her husband but she had heard a voice that was unrecognized. and found out it was not her husband. she did not have her glasses on and could barley see up to 3 inches. she had saw the person and described as he was on drugs and scary. Then she had stared screaming that had woke her daughter and she stared screaming too. the man had threatened her that if her daughter did not shut up he would her killed her. at that moment she had said to herself that she would have done anything to keep her daughter safe.she had told her daughter to up to her room and lock her door and keep it lock lintel she had gone up to get her. she had to make him happy so he would not hurt or kill her daughter. At that point she had finger out he was stoner bigger then her. Then the guy had took her cloths off, and grabbed her by the hair and he had told her to get him a drink and so she did. she had ran across a pan she wanted to hit him with it but she was too wound that she was not strong enough to knock him out.so she had not do it, she was scared that was just going to him mad. He had sated there for 2 hours the guy had wanted for her to have sex, and she had let him do want ever he wanted to do. She had tried to convince his to leave but nothing work. he had tide her hand and went outside and she was begging him to not leave her daughter alone in the house, and the man just thought her to shut up. At that point she had thought her was going to die and never see her family again. she had on a car and then if she scared or naked outer noise he would of go back in her house and kill her daughter. she can only move her leg and she was thinking how is she going to make it out. she had a rides around town and he pick up some people and then drop them off. later he had stop and was thinking how to rind of her. and all she wanted to get dropped off anywhere but she want to get home and to her daughter. he had let her go to the front sit for more sex. and her husband is home and still wanted to go home. and now she ended up back in the trunk of the car and it was getting hot and now she was planing to run away. the car had stop for a long time and she had kick the sit and got to the driver side and drove away but she did not have her glasses on so she could not see vary well.her husband was there and she had got home and huge her daughter a lot. Then she was rushed to the hospital. 8 years had passed before she was abductor, and the guy had got caught convicted on a DNA match. and went to prison

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived

The man who doesn't care

She was with this guy for 13 years, she had thought he was a good husband until he trued to a men who did everything in his power to hurt her in mentally, financially, physically, and sexually. it all stared when she was stared a business, and he tried everything to stop me. she had seen that every time she had better in business wise, the more controlling he became. He stop paying bills. withholding sex. Ignoring her, calling her names. then one night he woke up to yell at her at 3 am. He had a knife hanging in the bedroom, with a 10" blade. she had woke several night being hit, he tried to say he was sleeping, and did't know he was doing it. he scared her. she had stop sleeping in the room. then she had found porno books around the house. she had kept asking his to not leave them around, as she had 6 year old son. he did it anyway. So she had to keep in eye out for them she had proceeded into her business refusing to give up, and he became more ugly daily. she ended up calling 911 when he had threatened to smash her office equipment, and hurt her. she had got a restraining order and had the police remove him. she had divorce was just signed it. she had not realize that she might have PTSD, until she had talk with her friends who is a psych. Tech. Now she have a new man now, a good man, She is dating. he had took her into a jewelry store to just look. she was so stressed out. She would't look at anything, and stayed back. All she wanted was to leave.

http://www.mental-health-today.com/ptsd/domestic/stories.htm

Hitchhikers on a Verge to Kill

I found a violent story that took place in the year 1983.
There was a man named Jesse that was driving his van on a road trip through the Texas Badlands during winter. He spotted two guys on the road freezing their butts off, and they had a dog with them. He knew that they needed to hitch a ride, but he didn't know if it was the right thing to do, although he did feel sorry for them.
He decided that leaving the two young men out in the snow was not a very noble thing to do, so he revved his van up towards them, and told them to hop in.
The road was filled with ice, and it was slippery, and it was dangerous. The two guys thanked the man and took a spot in the back. One of them was very talkative, while the other was quite timid and silent.
Jesse considered them nice people, but he still felt doubtful of letting them hitch a ride on his van.
Finally they had to stop at a hotel for the night. Jesse checked in at a room, and the two men checked into the room next to Jesse's. Jesse thought about leaving the two men in the hotel the next day. He even called his mother to ask her for advice about the hitchhiking thing.
The next morning he knocked really softly on their room door, so that he could say that he at least tried to advice them, so that he could leave them.
But to his "luck", they answered the door and came out ready to go.
They hopped back into the van, and left. The supposedly talkative guy didn't seem so talkative anymore, and they had a look in their eyes that didn't seem so friendly.
All of a sudden, one of the guys takes out a sledgehammer and brutally attacks Jesse with it.
Jesse fights back with all his might, but he failed to defend himself from the sledgehammer attacks. He took damaging blows to gut, ribs and face. Jesse lost control of the wheel and the van skidded off the road into the snow until one of the guys took control of the wheel. One of the guys opens the door in the midst of the struggling, and by this point, they had gone about 100 yards away from the highway. Jesse knew that he might die if he didn't escape from them and their sledgehammer, so he jumps from the van and into the snow.
Jesse felt the snow around him, and he heard the van coming back towards him. He thought that they were coming back to kill him so that he couldn't accuse them of anything. But they had come back for their dog which had accidentally jumped out of the van along with Jesse.
That's when they ran over Jesse's legs, and then they drove away with his van.
Jesse couldn't seem to catch his breath, but knew that if he lost consciousness, he would most likely die.
He crawled all the way to the highway, which was an extremely painful experience.
Somebody spotted him laying there helplessly, and covered in his own blood.
He was taken to the hospital and had surgery on his face, arms, ribs, legs, and on his collapsed lung.
The two guys got arrested, and sent to prison for attempted murder, grand theft auto, and use of weapons.
I was astounded at this man's story. Maybe he should have followed his instincts, and he should have left the two guys at the hotel. I guess you can't really trust anyone you don't know. Especially hitchhikers, because they can be a real pain in the butt. Take this story as an example. And sometimes the attacker isn't necessarily the hitchhiker, but also the one who owns the vehicle. So whatever you do, don't hitch a ride, or pick up a hitchhiker. Ever.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 24

Every Day Abuse

Justin is terrorized by his meth abusing parents every day. Not only did his parents use meth but they made and dealt it. His job was to keep his little sisters safe and keep out of his parents way. Because he Had to get the food for his sisters he went shoplifting, but he got caught and it was a good thing in his life. The police came and took justin back to his house and while there the police found his parents activities of meth. The kids were taken away and their parents were arrested but because of the feeling of guilt Justin had he would punch walls, would be verbally abusive and ended up getting himself suspended from school. This is when the Kempe foundation stepped in. They gave him a mentor and had him attend skills groups to learn how to cope. He worked for nine months and finally was able to realize that it was not his fault. He now lives with an adoptive family with his sisters.

This would be very bad to have to stay away from your parents every day. To have to steal to get your food for the day. It reminds me of Aladdin.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=210

Women been abused

I read a story about women that was mentally and physically abused marriage to a man that worked for New York City (NYC for short) He beaten and belitted her until she was useless.. He threatened her and her daughter, and her family. Ironically, her sister was abused and he will come to the rescue. Instead he was her tormentor and she was never to get any help by the NYC.

She tried to get help and they were very helpful, but some way her husband boss would break it apart.

what helped her get out of this situation was her friends, her family, and her love of her self, her daughter, because she tried to kill her self.

http://www.wadv.org/Survivors.htm

Is This man a hero?

She saw her husband holding a gun right at her. after the years she had a abusive relationship. she thought to herself "not this time gun or no gun" she turned her back at him with his AK-47. she walk back to the backdoor that was in the kitchen. then she smelled gunpowder. In her head she was asking to herself " where is the phone?" she looked up and saw the phone and the cord was cut. At that millisecond she head a POP, she found herself on the kitchen table with her right hand while her left hand holding her side. She was trying to realize that she had been shot. She had sat down, she did not know want to do. She said " It did not hurt". she could had breath, but she could tell something was right. Her husband came over and looked at her. she looked back and said "you shot me. call 911." Then he was putting in other bullet in the gun. she had got p and reached for the phone. she had dialed 91 but before she dialed the other 1 he had took the phone away. She did not wait to find out what was going to happen next. She turned to the bedroom to use the phone. As she was walking her legs felt weak. Then she had a unfathomable burn stared in her chest and rib cage,When she got to the living room she could not go any further. she couldn't breath nor scream nor move because the burn had got worse so she fell to the floor. Then she begged pleaded to him to call 911. she apologized for whatever she had done to him, and he said "no you are going to die now". She crawled to the front door, then reached up and opened the door. she was laying half way in the house with her head on the porch. she tried to scream for help, but nothing came out as a whisper. Then she felt the door opening away from her legs. then he drug her back inside, then he called 911 " What a hero" she said that in her mind. She had spent 8 days in ICU and 9 days on the regular floor of the hospital. She had horrible nightmares in the hospital, ones she had found herself hitting her arms against the hospital bed railing and screaming. She had woke before the nurses came. She had a nightmare of she was hitting the inside her coffin. since then, it was just the same old nightmares. some night it better then the outers. Then she sees shirts and car stickers saying "NO FEAR". She laugh to herself and wounder, do these people really know want is fear, at the same time she even envy for the ignorance. That's was used to be her.

Surprise Attack

So I found a story about a young woman who was brutally assaulted.

Her name was April. She was out having a great time with her ex boyfriend, Brandon, and a friend of his, named Virgil. They were in the car going out for a joyride at about seven pm. They were out on an isolated highway in the small town of Paris, Tennessee. She was in the front seat driving, and Brandon and Virgil were both in the back. All of a sudden, Virgil starts major choking Brandon, and April pulls over.

Virgil gets out of the car with a gun in his hand and tells Brandon to get out of the car and to get inside of the trunk. Brandon cowardly listens, and Virgil shuts the trunk with Brandon inside.

He then grabs April and takes her down to a nearby cemetery and he sexually assaults her multiple times throughout the night. He checks on Brandon often to see if he's still in the trunk. The third time he knocked on the trunk, there was no answer. Then he asked April in a shrill voice, " Do you think that he's asleep, or do you think that he is dead?"

What Virgil didn't know, was that Brandon had escaped his solitary confinement, and had run away cowardly.

April kept praying that some cop would come down the highway and hear her struggling with Virgil. But none did.

After checking for Brandon the third time, Virgil took April towards the front of the car, and sexually assaulted her again.

April knew that Virgil was going to kill her, so she tried to escape from his grasp, but Virgil stabbed her in the chest with a rod that he had picked up from the ground.

April decided to play dead. When she did, Virgil stuck her in the trunk and drove her to a remote location on the outskirts of town.

Virgil had a tank of gas which he took out, and poured gas all over April and her car, and set part of her on fire. She screamed loudly although no one could hear her. He shut the trunk and set the car in flames.

April could hear that the car was on fire. All that she could think of, was that her gas tank was going to explode, and that it was right under her head. She knew that there was an emergency lever inside of the trunk, and any chance that she would get, she would pull that lever, and get out of there.

She heard a truck outside pull up and then drive away after a door was slammed shut.

She knew that Virgil had left.

She pulled the lever and then all went black, but she was relieved that she had gotten out of the car. A nearby farmer saw the big flames on his property, and came by to see the source of the fire. He came over and saw April lying on the ground half burned and bleeding. He called 911 and April as saved.

I was surprised that she even survived those massive attacks. She suffered third degree burns and broken fingers. Her attack shows that anyone that you don't know well, could be abusive. You have to be careful with who you hang out with.

April never did find out exactly why Virgil attacked her, although he did turn himself in six months later.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 24

The guy who wants everything

I read a story about a survivor. In the summer she met a guy and they knew each other about 3 weeks and then the guy move in with her and her son. She saw her son and the guy getting along with each other.He will all ways bought her card and flowers. This went on for 3 mouths. One day she went out to buy some grocery, and so she went to the grocery store And she had been gone for an hour and when she got home. Eddie the guy was furious with her. Eddie slammed her down on the couch, and causing her to hit her head on the piano. Eddie told her that when she got to the store she will only have ten minutes to go shopping and get home. Now she can't drink coffee with her mom and dad in the morning like she used to. When she was gone logger then ten minutes Eddie would start pushing her around, and he would grab her upper arm and drag her to the bedroom. That is were he always starts beating on her. Eddie would bruise her arm every time he grab her like that. She would go bowling every one a week and she would take 2 hours to bowl. But one night she went bowling and she had went to see her mom and dad, and when she got home Eddie would grab her and took her to the bedroom again. She been threw down on the bed and held her there then he would start head butting me. He does this several time. He would say to her that she would better not hurt me. So she bent backwards for she wouldn't hurt as much. He was never happy, and thing just got worse. She would go to work Eddie the guy told her that she was not to talk to anyone, and some times the guy wold go and check on her. Ones she was talking to her manger, and after that happen she would go to the room and he would knock her around again. Every time he got done with her he would of told her that he was sorry, and he would not do it again. Then he would always begged her for another chance, and she would. If she had a day off and the guy went to work she had to stay next to the phone she wanted to visit her parents but she could not because Evey 5 minutes he would call her to see if she was there. The guy would make up stores just to have a reason to beat her up, or call her names when they got home. the guy had someone to watch her every move. Then she become to get scared. The guy always accused her of cheating on the guy, and she tried to denied it he would slap her around her again. Ones in the morning they got into a fight, but when she went to work he called and said that he cut his hand, he wouldn't tell her how, and wanted her to take him to the hospital. she said she could not because she can not just leave her job.Then he just hung up. when she got home his hand was really cut with a mirror. But he did that to him self and he told her that this was her fault. So she was talking to her sitter about everything and the sitter said you should kick him out of the house, and call the cops so she would not get hurt. Then she know why is he doing this to her so no one couldn't know want was happened to her, that he was scared. he did this so she couldn't remainder that ones he tried to kill her. it happen when she went to work and it seem to normal no one her when she got home, and when she came home her dad called her. and he ask if she can come over and she said ok. when she hung up the guy come and said who was it and she ansered. he let her go for half in hour. she said ok when she got there her dad said they call him and the manger might not let her work there anymore. she wanted to kick the guy out of her house. She had called her sitter to see want she wold say and she said yes. she was about to go but then her dad said do you want me to go. she said no she needs to do this by herself.but the dad said if you have any trouble just call the cop for backup. she said OK. she was going home but them she find the guy walk up to her. He ask questions but then he called he bad names that she was lie. and then she said it. She said that she "I want you out of my house, then he grabbed her arm like always and went to the bedroom but he went to the kitchen and she heard the drawer open but she did not know what she was doing by the time she got really really scared so she pick up the phone and dial the number by that time she pick up the phone he came back. she looked and he had a knife . when she tried to get away he swung the knife and it cut her on her left chest she turn her back on him, and she felt the knife go thought her. there she had a change to call the cops, but he got the knife and stab her, she felt the knife going in her. after she got stabbed he went out the back door and threw it over the fence and at this time she had a chance to call the her dad and then her dad called her sitter came. afther when the guy came he said that let him call 911 and she told him "to get bthe $%&@ away from me" and "to never touch me". they both went to the front porch and her dad went and fought the guy to the ground. then the cop came, and the cops had too call the ambulance and they took her and she trued out fine. and the guy went to prison for about 1 to 15 years and and she trued out fine.

http://www.mental-health-today.com/ptsd/domestic/stories.htm

Abused Women

I read about a women called lye and she was abused for 7 by her ex-husband. They have a 5-year-old child and two boys who have seen it all. The 5-year-old boy has seen it for 5-years most than other people.

Lye did not deal with it very well. She id in a mediation for and see a therapist twice a month. Her rapist,Her ex-husband, is in a CA state prison.

What helped her get out of this situation was her children, who made her stronger. She has all boys and she did not want them to do the same to other women.

http://www.wadv.org/Survivors.htm

Alcoholic

I read about a woman called Patty and she was alcoholic for 10 years. She treavelded far from support network. She was beaten, her children will run when his husband came, and she has to make everything perfect-but it was never for him. Other things she faces is if she said no he will not take it. When nobody was around he will call here HORRIBLE names and beat here up to the ground.
What she did is to gatter all the strenght and gave him an ultimatum.
What helped here was the fear, and corage that helped here get out of here situation. Patty made a good choice to leave, and she was never EVER afraid of him again.





http://www.wadv.org/Survivors.htm

Neglection Recoverer

Tracy had a mother that was battling a heroine addiction, while neglecting her. At the age of 12 Tracy ran away from her mother to family that could take care of her. She was traumatized from leaving her mother even tough she couldn't take care of her. Even through all of this Tracy is still luckier than most people. She was lucky because she had family, and she had the determination and courage to beat her problems.

The way Tracy beat her neglection was through Kempe Fostering Healthy Futures Program. This program takes the child in foster or kinship care and provides with a mentor and has them attend weekly therapeutic skills sessions. This provides the child with resources to heal.

Having a mother on a drug addiction must be really bad especially when the child is not even a teenager yet. I know I would hate having to go through this.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=286

Abused Little Girl

Lily had a father that demanded that she do everything right the first time. If she did not clean the dishes or vacuum he hit her. He would hit her for no good reason, or the reason would be imaginary. Once when her father threatened her mother with a knife and her mother cut her hand grabbing for it, Lily was terrified because her father would be very mad.

The abuse was only noticed when she started school, instead of giggling uncontrollably like many first grade girls do she was distracted and could not concentrate on learning. When the bruises and scratches started to show up everywhere her teachers were concerned.

Child welfare was called and she was taken away from her parents. The foster family she was put into started to do all of the chores that she used to do and that made her surprised. She had always taken out the trash, cooked ,cleaned, and many others. Lily had never played with dolls or watched cartoons on early Saturday morning. She could not form good relationships for friends and was depressed with a very very low self esteem, and she had nightmares, reliving the horror of the incidents many times over.

Lily met with therapists and they had her tell all of the stories from when her father had beaten her. The found that her dad had not always been abusive but had very many trigger for his outbursts. After sveral months of therapy she has started to get a better self esteem, she can form good relationships and has ways to cope with the pain.

This had to be really hard for her, having your dad make you do grown up chores at five years old; it has to be harsh.

http://www.kempe.org/lily

TODAY'S HEADLINE: Retarded man Shoots and Abducts Woman

I watched a video about a woman who went through something crazy and sad.
Her name is Jennifer, and she was driving out on a deserted highway near the city of Lufkin Texas. It was 2 am, and she was picking up her 17 year old cousin, Ana, from a babysitting job. Ana was sitting in the passenger seat of the car.
All of a sudden, there was a loud bang right beside Jennifer.
A crazy man had shot at Jennifer through the window of her car with a shotgun while he was driving.
There was blood and glass all over Jennifer, and her cousin was screaming. Jennifer was still alive, but because of the condition that she was in at that time, she couldn't drive on. So she pulled over and told Ana to call 911 on her cell phone. While she did this, the gunman got out of his car and walked towards theirs. He came to the window, grabbed the phone out of Ana's reach, and shot her in the temple, killing her instantly.
Jennifer was frozen with fear. She was a bit dazed from the blood that she lost, but miraculously, she was still alive. Even after the gunman had nearly severed her arm, destroying most of the flesh and bones.
After the gunman killed Ana, he dragged Jennifer into his car. He went back to Jennifer's car to retrieve Ana's body to clear up the scene. During that time, Jennifer took the man's gun, and threw it out the window.
The man ended up not bringing Ana's body, but he kidnapped Jennifer, and nobody heard her muffled screams.
He drove far off into the woods. He took Jennifer out of the car, and sexually abused her.
After he sexually abused her, he turned into a totally different person, and started asking her questions like, what happened to your arm?, or, are you okay?
He acted as if he had no recollection of what had happened. Because of this, Jennifer tries to confuse the gunman into thinking that he had saved her from another man. Strangely, he believed her.
The man was suffering from some disease or something, because that was too weird.
She tricked him into taking her to his house and letting her use his phone. His house was isolated in the woods right beside a cemetery. She called 911, and the gunman actually helped her out with her wounds and with the 911 call. This 911 call took place after the police had found Ana's body, and they found out that the guy Jennifer was with was the actual killer.
Jennifer and the crazed man waited for the ambulance for 50 minutes. When they arrived, the crazy man actually walked Jennifer to the ambulances and police, all the while, unaware of what he had done. Jennifer made it through the surgery, and kept her arm.
This crazy man's name was Eric Parnell, and he had a lifetime sentence in jail for what he did.
I thought that this story was really crazy. At first I thought that this man was faking it so that he could take Jennifer home and kill her, but I was so wrong.
I'm pretty sure that all the time that Jennifer was with the man, she was scared that he would come to, and finish what he started. I just can't imagine that pain and fear.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 16

Little Girl with PTSD

I read about a girl named Anna that had her dad leave her, witnessed her brother die, and was pulled away from her neglecting mother, a drug abuser.

When the Kempe organization found her she was in really bad shape, even while living with foster parents. She would have periods were she had intense anger and periods of anxiousness. She also had frequent nightmares and started to re-wet the bed. She would also scare all the kids in her foster home by telling them all of the details of her brother's murder, and unfortunately a low self esteem and bad grades.

Anna had a risk of developing behavioral and mental issues. If they are not treated they can cause the person to go down a very dark path for life.

People at the Kempe organization helped Anna get her story straight and let her get it off her chest. After she did this she was able to heal from the separation from her parents and the murder of her brother. She was able to get the trauma out of her head and is now making good grades in school and has a better self esteem.

I think that this would be really bad for anyone to go through. It just is not right.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=563

Held Hostage

I watched a video that was about a criminal who held a woman hostage.
This woman's name was Tammi, and she was out buying stuff at a local convenience store in Shelbyville, Indiana.
While she was in the store, a man outside crashed his car into a truck that was parked right beside two police cars. This man was already being chased for an accuse of burglary and use of weapons. He ran into the convenience store and told everyone to get out or he was going to shoot and kill them all.
He spotted Tammi in the back of the store, and told her to head up front with the manager behind the counter, but the manager fled the scene, leaving Tammi there alone with the shooter.
One hundred police officers including the S.W.A.T team, had gathered outside the building. He pointed the gun to her head so that the police officers could see, and he told them that if they came closer to the store, he would kill Tammi.
Six hours went by. Tammi started talking to the man, asking him questions about his life, and telling him that he didn't want to do this because she had five children to take care of, and a husband. The man kept shooting at the police officers and threatened to kill Tammi if they didn't back away.
After twelve hours, the gunman became very agitated, but Tammi told him that she wanted to write a letter to her family just in case something happened, and the gunman let her do it.
After eighteen hours, the gunman wanted to trade Tammi for his girlfriend, but the police refused the offer. Instead, the police told the man to let Tammi go out of the store so that she could retrieve a cell phone so that the man could make a phone call to his girlfriend.
When Tammi opened the door to get the cell phone, the police tried to get her out of there, but failed because of the shots that were fired at them from the gunman.
When Tammi is back inside, she hears the back door of the store exploding open, and then shots were exchanged from the shooter and the S.W.A.T team. Tammi ducked from the open fire and screamed for it to stop. When it did, she saw that the man was lying dead on the floor. He had been shot in the arm, leg, butt, and chest, but he died because he had shot himself in the neck.
I'm so glad for Tammi. I thought that what she went through was pretty intense. Some people can be really crazy to hold somebody hostage for that long. I'm pretty sure that the man did a lot of reflecting during that time period. I don't think that he really wanted to kill Tammi. He was just insecure of what to do. He probably just needed time to think about things, because he knew that he was going to die. He probably didn't want to take another life with him.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 16

No More Surviving

I read about a lady called Eliot that was in and abusive marriage for 10 years.

She was pushed, shoved, hit, slapped, raped, taunted, and tormented. Her son was witness with the abusive, but he was emotionally abused.

She tried to carry it like it was fine and normal. But she felt so alone.

She was embarrassed and ashamed that she did not do anything.

Nobody in her family helped her, so what they did is turn their backs and don't get involved. What helped her get out of this trouble was a book that nominated her to react and take some action. And the other thing that helped her has the love of her son.

http://www.wadv.org/Survivors.htm

Patrick was here!!!

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An Attack on the Innocent

I watched another video in which the violence in the story was very suspenseful.
So there was this school principal named Norina, who was sitting in her school office, talking on the phone and looking out the window at the same time. She saw that there was a stranger outside the door of the school, and thought that this man was a family member of a student who attended the school. She thought that this man might have been looking for a child in the building, so she finished her phone call, got out of her office, and went out into the hallway to look for this man.
She found him outside of a kindergarten classroom, looking through the door window. The man looked like he was a grandfather who was lost and confused. He was startled to see Norina. She asked him if he needed help looking for someone. In response, he took a machete out of his jacket and attacked Norina with it.
Norina threw her arm up to shield herself from the sharp weapon.
The machete created deep wounds on her arm and hand.
The man left her lying on the ground and ran inside of the very kindergarten room he was looking into. Norina was badly hurt, but in concern of the situation, she didn't tend to her wounds. Instead she got back up, went to her office, and called out to the school for a lock down.

The kindergarten teacher of the targeted classroom, was trying desperately to protect the innocent children from harm. Some children ran out of the classroom, and some clung to the teacher, for she was their only source of protection.

Norina ran back to the classroom and tackled the stranger. The man hurt Norina some more with his machete. Norina was absolutely sure that this man wanted to kill her.
She then successfully managed to knock the machete off of the man's hands.
During these events, some other teachers had gathered outside of the classroom to try and help with some of the kids. One of the teachers picked the machete up from the ground so that the stranger wouldn't get hold of it again.
All Norina could think about was the kids, so she tried with all her power to confront the rage of this man, and defeat him.
The man turned free of her grasp and ran out of the classroom, leaving Norina on the ground in a pool of her own blood.
One of the teachers had called 911. When the police and ambulances arrived, they caught the man, and they took care of Norina.
Norina was sent to the hospital, and the man was sentenced to jail.
This woman's experience shows that violence can happen at anytime, anyplace, and anywhere.
I think that it was so insane of this man to attack someone so innocent. It was very heroic of Norina to put her life in danger to protect the children. But of course, any woman with the heart of a mother, would do the same.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 10

On May 29, 2004, there's a Lt. Col. named O'Neal whom was shot five times and is still alive to tell about it. Terrorism isn't a common experience to talk about or to think about, so I chose this story

there was a woman named Laura Zeltauskaite who was 23 and was stabbed 17 times by her boyfriend after a thee and a half year relationship.

After that long I don't think that they would do that right after, I'd give him a week to do so but not very soon.

Child Abuse Survivor

When this man was a child ,his parents divorced so he blamed himself, he lived with his mom and when she went to work he had a baby-sitter. The baby-sitter was a fourteen year old girl, that lived down the street, but this girl was mean and perverted.

Every day he would have to recite the same poem over and over again and that poem said that he would be a good boy or suffer the consequences. once he was stretched and tied to the kitchen table and was beaten with a fishing pole while naked, another tome he was at the mall with her and she spanked in front of all of the shoppers there. After this incident he was extremely considering suicide.

As he grew up his mom decided to move and he was thankful for that because it meant the end of his torture. He became a husband and father after going to college. After forty years of hiding his pain he decided that it was time to tell someone about it. He had heard about a hot-line that you can use that is completely anonymous, so he wrote down his story and called in.

After that he decided to see a psychiatrist. He got recommended to one named K. When she left she recommended another psychiatrist who's name was M. It was M that really made him think about what had happened so that he could move on with his life.

His new mission is to help others with abuse problems from their childhood, instead of figuring out how to kill himself.

I think that this would really suck, and I'm sure hiding this from your family is very hard. I would try to face my pain and if I couldn't I would try to get help as soon as possible.

http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/child-abuse-survivors-true-success-story/

Not Trustworthy

I watched an interesting video about a girl named Jennifer, who went through a harsh experience of brutal violence. Jennifer lives at an apartment complex in Houston, Texas. She was home asleep one night when all of a sudden, this guy was on top of her, holding a knife to her throat. She obviously started to scream, but eventhough her screams awoke almost all of her apartment neighbors, none of them called the police. The man yelled at her to shut up, and to her surprise, the man knew her name. Jennifer knew that the man was trying to rape her, so she desperately tried to fight him off.
All the while, she was trying to think of a person who knew where she lived and what her name was. She couldn't see the man's face in the darkness, and she couldn't recognize his voice. That would've been creepy if the guy was stalking her for a while before he tried to sexually abuse her.
Jennifer was terrified at the fact that the stranger broke into her apartment, because she had remembered locking the door.
The stranger then managed to remove his pants, and Jennifer kept trying to pry him off of her. Because of this, the stranger swung his deadly knife at her, and successfully created a huge gash stretching across her face. She screamed very loudly, and all the while, the stranger spit curse words at her.
Jennifer then managed to push him off of her, but he swung his knife at her throat, and slit it open.
Jennifer held her hand to her throat and dashed inside of her bathroom. She knew that the bathroom door did not have a lock. She slammed the door shut, placed her back against it, put her two feet against the bathtub, and held back with all her might.
The stranger tried pushing the door open a couple of times, but failed.
Then there was silence.
Jennifer knew that if she stayed in the bathroom, she would bleed to death. She thought that maybe the stranger was trying to trick her into coming out again, but she knew that she was in a life and death situation. So she got up, opened the door, and called out to see if there was anyone there. The attacker seemed to have left, so she then called 911, and told the guy on the other line what had happened. The 911 guy told Jennifer to stay calm, and that he was going to stay on the line until the police and ambulances arrived. When the police arrived, they found Jennifer and took her to the hospital. The doctors told her that she had put up a hell of a fight.
She later found out that when she was hospitalized, the police had interviewed the guard of the apartment complex. The police officers made the guard strip his uniform off. They saw that his shirt was covered in blood, and he was wearing no underwear.
The apartment complex's guard had tried to sexually abuse Jennifer.
I think that the story of this young woman was really amazing. It's so ironic that somebody you trust so well, like a safety guard, could be one of the most dangerous people that you would encounter. That's how some criminals get their victims. By gaining their trust.
Nevertheless, Jennifer survived this criminal, and became very good friends with the 911 guy, who practically saved her life.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 10

Crazy woman

I read about a guy's wife slapping him for saying no to her for wanting to get donor sperm in order to get pregnant. The doctor said there were no problems. They had tried for 4 months, and she was getting impatient, and was willing to beat anyone down who got in her way. They talked about it, and the guy was getting scared by his wife. He got slapped for not allowing her to get pregnant and for using other men's sperm. He had found a letter from his wife's friend. Their plan was to dump him after having the child. And how to catch the husband's sperm in a condom with out him knowing. He keeps the letter to remind him why he divorced his wife. Then his wife body-slammed his mother into a mirrored closet door bruising her knees. She then suffered a nearly fractured finger. No one help him.

http://www.mental-health-today.com/ptsd/domestic/stories.htm

Reactions Of Violence

Domestic violence victoms are exposed to threats, violence, intimidation, and physical, emotional and psychological abuse. Some of those victoms that have been in domestic violence may develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stess Disorder is a mental health that may cause flashbacks, significant anxiety, depression and fatigue.
Other victoms may experience more reactions like;
Fear;
Nightmares and sleep disturbances;
Anxiety;
Anger;
Difficulty concentrating;


http://www.ncvc.org

Consumer Rights

What I read was weired because 1 out of every women get abuse by there husban or guy. Most of those women are domestic violence. 20% of those women have experienced domestic violence in their prior year. 65% have been victims, and 30% lost their jobs because of domestic violence. Many of those women are low-moderate income.
Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk for intimate partner violence.





http://www.consumerlaw.org/
http://www.ncvc.org

rape victim success

one night, a woman, her sisters, brother, and one other woman have been taken by a group of gang bangers, her sister in law, the brother and the other woman have been killed,but her and her sister are still lived as sex slave until they were pregnant. her sister died giving birth in 2007, so she was the only one too tell. her husband refuses to live with her. so she lives with her father.

she is still alive today. seems to be crazy that these things just happens to just anyone. not allot is used to it

Violence in Women

Victim success stories

Many women and children (women only) get raped from 4-12 years old but some survive because the raper's may not transfered diseases to them. Many women are traumatized because of raper's. Women or girl can get infections or by sexuality disases. Women can yet raped by men at any age from child to adult. Many women may stay because they might be afraid they might be abusing them often.
When I read some of this information I was shocked because any lady can get raped by any person, and at any time.http://www.ncve.com/

Ex-Boyfriend Murderer

I read about a lady that got shot by her ex-boyfriend. He was abusing and harassing her. He would drive by her house , follow her around town and even jump in her car when she stopped at a stop sign. He would put sugar in her gas tank, slashed two sets of tires and cut the power steering, along with just plain vandalizing the cars. tired of this she filed a harassment charge against him. When in court he threatened to kill her she signed a restraining order against him.

When she got home that evening her friend asked if she wanted them to come over and she accepted. During the middle of the night her boyfriend broke into her house and held all of the kids hostage. When he put the gun down she immediately grabbed it, as both women struggled with the boyfriend for the gun and screamed for the kids to run. The smallest one not wanting to leave his mother was pulled away by an older child. As he pulled the gun away and yelled at her to retract the restraining order she tried to run away.

As she tried to get away he shot and killed her in the back, the friend seeing an opportunity to escape ran, the ex-boyfriend shot at her and missed, he then decided to take his own life.

In the farewell letters they wrote she asked her dad to get her three kids into a good Christian home, not a cruddy orphanage.

When her kids go and spend time with their grand parents, they ask questions like" Why are people so mean and "Am I going to have to sleep by the window?, Is anyone going to break it?" unfortunately they can't stay there long because their grandfather is ill with a life-long polio so he can't take care of them full time.

I think that this really suck for the kids, going through life without a mom has got to be very hard especially when you are young like 9,6,or 4, the ages of her kids.

www.acadv.org/stories.html

A Very Violent Abusive Relationship

I read about this girl named Linda, who seemed to have chosen the wrong guy to date every single time, three times in a row. She got together with her boss at the age of eighteen. In the past, she had had a baby with someone else, and she didn't want to have anymore. She ended up getting pregnant with her boss and told him that she was going to terminate the pregnancy, but her boss wanted to have a baby with her eventhough she didn't want to. That's when he started to threaten and beat her up real bad.

He did horrible things to her eventhough she was pregnant. She almost always had bruises and black eyes. She was hit for pathetic reasons. She ended up having four kids with the guy. She got tired of living with him, so she left him, taking her oldest son with her.

She should have done that ages ago. Anyway, she became a stripper to provide for her kid and herself. She hooked up with another guy who seemed nice at first like her boss, but he ended up being a total jerk. He hit her twice and was going to rape her, but he got arrested and put in jail for one and a half years.

She then was introduced to another guy, named Jeff, who was worse than the two other men put together. He hit her everyday and stalked her wherever she went. He even held a gun to her head once. She put up with him for six and a half years! Then she left him, but he found her anyway. When he found her, he beat her up so bad that she almost died. He smashed her face until blood spurted out. He made her spend the night with him. She waited until he was asleep, and she ran away and accused him with the police.

He went to jail for a long time, and Linda finally met her prince charming which she lived with happily ever after and stuff.

All the violence that she went through took a period of about thirty-three years!

I think that Linda was not smart to keep dating the same guy that kept beating her. She should have left the guy as soon as he hit her the first time. Maybe she thought that her relationship with her boss could have changed after she had a baby with him. And maybe she thought that guys make mistakes and they can change, but evidently for her they didn't. What happened to Linda shows that you have to be careful with your choices because the world can be cruel and violent, and Linda was lucky to have survived that cruelty, but some people aren't so lucky.

www.mental-health-today.com