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For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 1:49:16 AM

Strugglin2Protect

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Please light a candle for those lives lost due to abuse. I recently held a candlelight vigil for a local woman age 26 yrs old and her two precious sons, 4 yr old Skyler Price and 2 yr old Joshua. Sarah and her sons were shot in the head by her abusive ex, whom she had left months before the tragedy. Their killer, Aaron DeForest then turned the gun on himself. This has hit me hard. There is so much abuse going on in our country. Women and children die needlessley every day from Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. I am from Oklahoma, and we have had 17 people die already this year in Domestic Homicides.
Kelsey Briggs 2 1/2 yr old from Meeker Oklahoma was murdered Oct. 11, 2005 by blunt force trauma to the stomach. After 9 months of documented abuse, which included both legs in casts at the same time, other broken bones, and video of 29 bruises at one time, a Judge returned Kelsey to her mother and stepfather and less than 4 months later, Kelsey was murdered. Her stepfather, Michael Porter plea bargained to a charge of "enabling child abuse" which means he knew or should have known Kelsey was being abused....he received a 30 yr sentence of which 25 yrs has to be served before he will be eligible for parole. Kelsey's mother, Raye Dawn Smith is awaiting trial in July...but out on bond. She is charged with two felonies. Kelsey's father was fighting in Iraq, while his precious daughter was fighting here in the US for her life...she lost the battle. DHS was involved. Kelsey had lost weight, was losing her hair, lost the light in her eyes yet they did nothing to protect this beautiful baby. Please lite candles for victims of abuse.

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 4:33:19 AM

Emil

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I always pray for the abused. It is a cause very close to my heart. I would love to join a prayer group for this cause, but will wait until someone names the group. In the meantime, I will light a candle under the group "Jesus".

Regards,
Emil

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 2:36:14 PM

Hildegard

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Welcome to the forum, Starla! You have courageously taken on an important cause. There is so much abuse of every kind, and often not reported. There are the more visible cases where bodily injuries are involved. The less visible ones are the emotional ones that leave children scarred for life. Children are often afraid to talk about what has happened to them perhaps until years later.
Do you have a candle group for victims of abuse? If not, you might consider one. The top threads give you instructions.
With every good wish,
Edda

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 3:26:20 PM

Nadja

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It's such a good idea to start a candle groop for those who are involved with abuse.....

There's way too much off it going on all over the world,even in this tiny Holland.I can tell from first hand,my ex was very abusive,I had to leave Holland for a few years to survive,there was nothing left to do for the police,and with me many other's.
My friend lost his girlfriend,she was murdered by her ex with a knife,stabbed her 24 time's and the whole time her 4 yr old little boy could see the whole tradigy.

So yes I will light a candle,I will light one everyday.

With love Nadja xxx

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 5:46:23 PM

Strugglin2Protect

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I'm sorry, yes I started a group under Abuse. I lit candles for Sarah Smith and her sons and also for Kelsey Briggs. I and my children are victims of abuse. Although I divorced my abuser in 98, my nightmare isn't over yet. He escalated to tell thing children in 2002 on his visits with them that he was going to kill me, have me killed--among other horrible things. Once I received a protection from abuse order that included the children, he called me immediately violating the order across state lines(felony) and told me he had decided that if I backed him into a corner with the protective order, he wouldn't kill me because my pain would end too quick. He would kill the kids and then himself and that would be his final infliction of pain on me, I'd have to live with it the rest of my life knowing my kids died because of me. I believe him and know he is capable of carrying out these threats. I lived with the abuse for almost 9 yrs. Recently a Ks. court has modified the Oklahoma Protection From Abuse order and has given him supervised visits with the children with the intent to give him unsupervised access. I don't know what will happen in the future. I know without any doubt he will eventually kill me. I have learned to live with that fact, but my prayers are to keep my children safe and alive until they are 18 when he can no longer use them to take me to court to have access to me. You might light a candle for the safety of my children. They are 15 & 16. God Bless

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 6:55:39 PM

Hildegard

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Dear Starla, thank you for entrusting your story to us. You really know what you are talking about. I will be glad to light candles for you, your children, and all who are abused, and those living in fear of their abuser.
Praying for your and your children's safety,
Love, Edda

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 7:44:37 PM

Strugglin2Protect

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Thank you Edda. There is so many things to my case, and alot you probably wouldn't even believe. I should also tell you my ex is an ex police officer & and former Marine. It shouldn't be this hard to protect your children, when there is a history of Domestic Violence. Law Enforcement and the Judges need to take threats made by abusers very serious...and they don't.
Thank you for all your kind words.

Starla

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/7/2007 9:35:17 PM

Emil

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Dear Starla: I will start lighting a candle and praying for you, your children, and all other victims of abuse.

My best,
Emil

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/8/2007 3:36:55 AM

Strugglin2Protect

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Thank you Emil. It is such a horrible feeling to know that you can't protect your children...and to have the one that helped you give them life...threatens to kill them and end that life, esp. when you know they are willing and very capable of doing so. It's hard to believe that in the year 2007 that things go on in our country that still do. Amazing.
Thanks again,

Starla

"The dead cannot cry out for justice, it is up to the living to do it for them"

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RE: For lives lost due to abuse - 6/8/2007 5:39:53 AM

Emil

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I don't mean to pry, but can't your children at their age refuse to see their father whom they're probably afraid of? And please, don't resign yourself to a fate you don't deserve. We'll pray with you, and get other people to pray with you as well. Heck, we should pray HE changes. This is very sad, as you say.

Emil

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