Before Shelter ***Trigger Warning***

[sheshe2]

1. "hushed words singled them out as battered women between snickers and ironic cracks."

"They were reminded “till death do us part” as they scrambled to disguise black eyes and broken ribs, and at night when they locked their front doors to keep safe from intruders, they cast their pleas into residual silence."

"In the late 1970s, hospitals witnessed scores of women enter emergency care because of an abusive partner. Neck injuries from strangulation, broken cheek bones and dark bruises all pointed to the same story."

"crisis counseling, and referrals, taking approximately 10,000 calls each year."

"The police, for example, fields 115,000 calls for domestic violence each year. The work that domestic violence advocates fulfill provides critical safety outlets so that no woman or child has to suffer in silence."

The police were at my house, were they at yours? His father heard about it over the police scanner. He knew and did nothing to stop it.

I left, I finally decided to no longer remain silent. Lucky for me I made that decision.



I am free~