Vigil Honors Victims of Domestic Violence
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The public was invited to a "Take Back the Night" candlelight vigil hosted by Friend to Friend, >a Moore County domestic violence and sexual assault agency, and sponsored by the Moore County District Attorney's office Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the Southern Pines Park on Broad Street. >
The event began at 6 p.m. with more than 60 people in attendance. Amber Boyte sang as Friend to Friend's executive director Anne Friesen welcomed everyone and stated the Friend to Friend mission: "to help victims of domestic violence and sexual assault rebuild their lives." Pastor Jason Hackett began with a prayer. Featured speaker Maureen Krueger, the Moore County district attorney, gave a moving speech citing that North Carolina is fourth in the nation for domestic violence. Ezette Rodriquez followed, reading a poem.
Then participants formed a circle, lighting candles while reading the names aloud of the 80 North Carolinians who died in 2010 as a result of domestic violence. Jamie McCall played the guitar. The vigil closed with a group prayer led by the Rev. Carl Naylor.
Hot dogs and refreshments were served immediately following the ceremony. Informational tables from Friend to Friend and Kids Peace were available. Some of the local emergency services in attendance included the Southern Pines Police Department, Southern Pines Fire Department, Pinehurst Police Department and Foxfire Village Police Department. Also in attendance were domestic violence survivors, representatives from Moore County Schools, local churches as well as concerned Moore County citizens and domestic violence advocates.
"Take Back the Night" is a domestic violence awareness event to help build a community in which everyone is free from the threat of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
To view a YouTube video of the event, visit the Friend to Friend website www.moorefriends.org.
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Ray2447 2 years, 6 months ago
What about all the men who are victims of women's domestic violence? Women's domestic violence against men is grossly under reported, while male victims are still routinely being ignored by the taxpayer funded domestic violence industry. Credible research overwhelmingly shows that the ratio of d.v. is at least 50/50 between women & men. http://tinyurl.com/3sakk According to one study by researchers who work at the CDC, in 70% of domestic violence incidents, where the domestic violence is not mutual, it's women who initiate the domestic violence. http://tinyurl.com/yzm9xhe The taxpayer funded domestic violence industry has largely mischaracterized the true nature of d.v. from the beginning and continues to mislead the public. D.V. law follows a gender feminist agenda/ideology over facts in evidence and does great harm to many innocent men (and also many battering women who need help) as shown in "Los Misandry" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxv...
Ray2447 2 years, 6 months ago
V.P. Biden recently called violence against women, "the very worst abuse." The very worst abuse is valuing one life less than another for having been born the wrong sex. Under domestic violence law, the wrong sex is men. Shelter and services are virtually non-existent for male victims of domestic violence so those options out of a bad relationship, that are routinely available to women, are very often not available to men. Men wind up gender profiled and often falsely accused by the taxpayer funded, d.v. industry, because of gender feminist ideology controlling the d.v. industry. Men are often battered by domestic violence, and then battered again by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry as shown in "Los Misandry" at Youtube.
Ray2447 2 years, 6 months ago
Little children are least able to contend with domestic violence in their families. According to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,760 in 2007), than all the female intimate partner homicides in a year. Mothers are the single largest group of kid killers, according to HHS and they have a rate twice that of fathers. Nowhere near the money is spent to protect kids from kid killing mothers as is spent by the domestic violence industry to protect women. A lot of innocent men are witch-hunted by the corrupt, gender feminist influenced, taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry. Involving the corrupt d.v. industry in an attempt to prevent abusive and neglectful deaths of children is a big mistake. No place better characterizes the corruption of the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry than "Los Misandry" at Youtube.