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Isolated, alone and afraid, rural domestic abuse victims endure
Isolated, alone and afraid, rural domestic abuse victims endure

Living in a small Mississippi River town, Hayden endured her husband’s cruelty, adhering to the belief that domestic abuse is something to be hidden from the broader community and kept within the confines of the household.

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News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry Mitchelldomestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, Law enforcement, domestic battery, small towns, lack of resources, LGBTQ+, rural mississippi
‘No one cared’: Black women face disproportionate rates of abuse at the hands of their loved ones — and a lack of protection from the system meant to help them
‘No one cared’: Black women face disproportionate rates of abuse at the hands of their loved ones — and a lack of protection from the system meant to help them

Michelle Coleman’s marriage had been rocky and violent, but things seemed better when she and her husband of a decade moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2017. After her new job at a medical unit in a jail, things “got physical,” she said, and she was forced to leave with her two children.

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News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry Mitchelldomestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, black women, Michelle Coleman, violent marriage, Law enforcement, Vinet Williams Moore, domestic battery, aggravated assault, Sharon Chambers
He admitted killing his wife and previously abused others. Why has he been free for over a year?
He admitted killing his wife and previously abused others. Why has he been free for over a year?

The soft, halting notes of a piano lingered in the dark room from a video as Shalanda Archie-Cook rocked her 6-year-old sniffling son to sleep. “She’s right here,” she told him, pausing to take a shuddering breath. “In your heart.”

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News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry Mitchelldomestic violence, abuse, domestic homicide, domestic abuse, husband killed wife, Anteetta Archie Swims, David Lee Swims, Oxford, murder
Nightmare at Home: how more and more children are being killed by their parents in murder suicides across America
Nightmare at Home: how more and more children are being killed by their parents in murder suicides across America

In the picturesque California neighborhood of Paradise Hills sits an ordinary, one-story, light beige house with a dark wooden roof. This is where Zeth, 11, Zuriel, 5, Enzi, 3, and Ezekiel, 9, died at the hands of their father in a murder-suicide. He also killed their mother, Sabrina Rosario.

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News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry Mitchelldomestic violence, abuse, murder suicide, domestic homicide, murdered children, fathers kill children, revenge, control, ERPO, red flag laws, domestic abuse, database
Attorney general rolls out new statewide domestic violence reporting system
Attorney general rolls out new statewide domestic violence reporting system

Attorney General Lynn Fitch on Tuesday announced the launch of a new statewide database to track domestic violence crimes.

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News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceKatherine Mitchelldomestic violence, family violence, VAWA, domestic abuse, Vicksburg, Domestic Violence Court, Attorney general Lynn Fitch, tracking system, track domestic violence, database, offenders database, track abusers, Center for violence prevention, lethality assessment protocol, Mississippi Domestic Violence Reporting System, MDVR
These Women Make A Difference For Domestic Violence Victims Who Like Them Are Most Often Black
These Women Make A Difference For Domestic Violence Victims Who Like Them Are Most Often Black

VICKSBURG — Dressed in neat scrubs, Akima Adams, 23, stood small and slight before the judge.

“This is the second time you’ve been in this court, right?” asked Judge Angela Carpenter, as she presided over Vicksburg’s domestic violence court.

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News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceKatherine Mitchelldomestic violence, family violence, VAWA, domestic violence victims, domestic abuse, Vicksburg, Judge Carpenter, Judge Angela Carpenter, State Rep John W Hines, Beverly Prentiss Domestic Violence Victim Empowerment Program, Judge Toni Walker Terrett, Domestic Violence Court, Domestic Violence Awareness Month
“The entire system is not designed for men”: how America silences and fails to help Native American men who survive domestic violence
“The entire system is not designed for men”: how America silences and fails to help Native American men who survive domestic violence

The domestic violence experienced by Native American women makes headlines…
But a 2016 report from the National Institute of Justice found that 4 in 5 Native American men have experienced some form of domestic violence in their lifetime, too.

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News, Mississippi News, Civil RIghts, Domestic Violence, Immersion Student StoryKatherine MitchellNative American men, domestic abuse, domestic violence, family violence, colonization, StrongHearts, Chippewa, boarding schools, Native Americans, Asterick Nation, male survivors, Department of justice, Violence Against Women Tribal Government Programs, VAWA, BIA
TWO WOMEN BECOME VICTIMS OF EXTREME CONTROL. ONE SURVIVES.
TWO WOMEN BECOME VICTIMS OF EXTREME CONTROL. ONE SURVIVES.

Domestic violence doesn’t always start with violence, advocates and survivors say; it begins with extreme control.

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