Abusers target pets to inflict suffering on their intimate partners

Jeremiah Lowe told his wife Abbey that an elderly couple, driving on a local road, fatally struck her beloved beagle Shelby.

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 28, 2022domestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, lack of resources, Animal abuse, killed pets

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.

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 27, 2022domestic 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

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.

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 20, 2022domestic 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?

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.”

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 18, 2022domestic 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

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.