It has been 1 year since My Sister N Law Leysa's life was tragically cut short on April 11, 2008. Her husband took her life and then his own. While her physical presence is no longer here, she lives on through the children that call both of us MOM.
Domestic Violence/Domestic Homicide is a Crime which affects people of every race, religion, sex, and financial status. Domestic violence DESTROYS any family or relationship it touches, unless it is recognized, treated and stopped!
Facts on Domestic Homicide
"In the U.S., estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) are that more than three women a day are killed by their intimate partners. Women are killed by intimate partners more often than by another acquaintance of stranger. Most of these murders involved were preceded by physical and psychological abuse. The pattern that emerges in these cases involves intimate partners in the 20 to 35-year-old range: The man is abusive, psychologically and/or physically. Obsessed with the woman to the extent that he feels he can’t live without her, he is fiercely jealous and determined to isolate her. Characteristically, suicidal murderers have little regard for the lives of other people; they would be considered, in mental health jargon, to be antisocial. Yet they are so emotionally dependent on their wives or girlfriends that they would sooner be dead than to live without them. When the girlfriend/wife makes a move to leave, her partner is absolutely distraught in the belief that he can’t live without her". http://www.helpstartshere.org/Default.aspx?PageID=1248
RIP Leysa~ Oct.17, 1974--April 11, 2008
Other resources:
The National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children
www.pomc.com
The Children's Bereavement Center
www.cbcst.org
Crime Victim Services Program
www.txdps.state.tx.us/
Federal Agencies and Resources
www.txdps.state.tx.us/administration/staff_support/victimservices/pages/federalagenciesandresources.htm
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