Victims of Crime: You Have Rights, Too!

Victims of Crime: You Have Rights, Too!

Ever been the victim of a crime? It can turn your life upside down. Anxiety creeps in. You begin to question your safety everywhere you go.

Maybe you’re lucky and you haven’t.

The statistics are staggering: 328,236 felonies or violent

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  • Having never been the victim of a crime I wasn’t aware this sort of help existed. Such a valuable service for people in a vulnerable time of their lives! You ladies do amazing work! Thank you!

    • Thanks, Brooke! It was an incredible experience to learn about what they do. I would definitely want their support if I were the victim of a crime. Please share the post so others are aware of their rights, too!

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Warrior Woman – Hear Me Roar

Warrior Woman – Hear Me Roar

Teressa warrior woman quote

 

 

Warrior Woman – Hear Me Roar

Teres’sa* is definitely a warrior woman. She and the other warrior women at the sexual abuse counseling center where she works adopted the motto “Hear Me Roar!” to remind them

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  • oh my I was overwhelmed with emotions reading this! You are a survivor and overcomer! Your strength in the Lord will continue to heal you and guide you down a path to be able to help others. sharing your story is the only way to educate others and to show others there is another path you can take. Thank you for sharing such intimate details of your life. Prayers for continued healing and courage.

    • Thank you so much! I speak at many events and tell my story when I feel that there maybe someone there that I could help. I have been surprised at the response I get. It is amazing how many people come forward asking how they may get the same kind of help that I did. I tell them that they have made the most important step already; that is, by standing up and facing the fact that they have been abused. I know now that I was put here for a reason and that reason is to help others to become an overcomer and a survivor because once you have done that you are no longer a victim. Thank you for the continued prayers.

  • A beautiful testimony of God’s redemptive love!

    • Thank you and yes it is, I see him working in my life daily now! I know he has a great plan for me. I trust him to lead the way.

  • Teressa I couldn’t bring myself to read your story til now. I wish I’d known and I’d have let you come down the street to our house. I’m SO proud of you and love you dearly!!

    • Tiff that is the thing NO ONE knew or if they did know they weren’t saying anything. I was too afraid to tell anyone after what happened at school. I have taken the negative that was given to me and made it into a positive. With each person I help it makes me that much stronger. I am proud of you too my dear friend and love you too!

  • Hi Teressa,
    I read your story and I am very happy you have been surrendered to God and received His great love, mercy, grace, strength and power to accomplish all the positive works and life changes He has provided for you and others that you wrote about. Praises to God for all your blessings!!!

    You will be staying with me March 23 rd for our Overcomer Celebration on 24th…. I am so looking forward to meeting you!

  • Hi Amelia,
    I am so sorry that I am just now responding back to your kind words. I am also so sorry that I did not get to make it to the celebration. I was just so worn out after the passing of my dad and returning from my vacation just to have to get right back on the road again. I am hoping that I will be able to attend next years. I was looking forward to staying with you and having dinner with everyone on Friday evening. Thank you again!

    Teres’sa

  • Teressa, I can not imagine having been so abused. I’m glad you decided to seek God and professional health. I’m hoping you are leading a happy life now.

    • Thank you Glenda! It was hard for so long, I understand that God had a greater plan for me which I am for filling now. I am blessed with a very happy life now.

  • Teressa,

    Wow, so many emotions reading your story! I love that you’re an overcomer helping others overcome. Brings to mind 2 Corinthians 1:4.. Thanks for sharing!

  • I am proud of you that you found your way through this abuse, and I pray you are living a happy life now.

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  • Tammy, I am so sorry for all the abuse you endured. You are an overcomer! Thank you for sharing and shining a light on the injustice of sex trafficking. Blessings!

  • there is a heaven. and then there is a hell – this is the justice for what these men did to her. there is a place in heaven for her final peace

  • Tammy,

    Melony mentioned she had another Overcomer story, and I could tell in my brief conversation with her last night, your story hit her like a semi truck , but I had no idea it was this big. The amount you have overcome is just unbelievable, and your story is full of such intense pain, deceit, loss, confusion, and so much more. I thank you for sharing your story. My niece works with sex trafficking, and I’m going to forward your journey to her. Before my niece got involved in helping women that have been exposed to sex trafficking, I thought it was someone who kidnaps a child, fills them with drugs and sells them as a service. But, as she and you just stated it can be your own family members, or friends, or people you reach out to for help. This was shocking to me, being a mother of a teenage daughter. I think your story, and the hard work my niece does, will help educate everyone. I thank you so much for sharing your journey, as I know it’s a hard thing to do. God has given you a voice to help stop this type of abuse, and for that I’m so grateful. I hope you continue to spread the word of God, and help get this information out to others. You are far more than an overcomer. You are a survivor that has taken something extremely horrific and turned it into a ministry that is just amazing.
    God bless you,
    Angie Thomsen

  • Melony, This is a very powerful testimony about overcoming. Good to know she turned so much evil and wrongdoing into a positive influence in her life. I am very proud of you for taking the time to meet, interview, and share these stories so that other lives can be positively impacted.

    Love,
    Dad

  • Tammy, thank you for sharing your story. I’m happy to hear you have overcome and are helping others. Many blessings!

  • Tammy, thank you being so honest and real as you shared your story. You can inspire many and help many. Your will, faith and determination have gotten you so far and will continue to do so! Many hugs!

  • Tammy, just the fact that you can profess faith in God is a miracle. You are one of his most precious, beautiful, effective assets to bring victims His peace and comfort, and you are inspirational to the rest of us. Let me never complain nor wallow in self pity about my own mountains. For you are my new benchmark!! May God keep you and bless you and make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you forever. Amen.

  • Tammy, your story is one of innocence stolen and unrecoverable, yet you have allowed that part of you that remained tender and unsullied to be exposed and vulnerable enabling you to be a bearer of light, reaching into the darkness and making a way where there was no way for others to escape an otherwise inescapable pit of despair.

  • Dear Tammy your story brought me to tears. With what you have been through I would say you are the strongest person I have ever known. I’m so proud of you for just continuing to do the things that you needed to do to defeat this cycle. You are absolutely amazing

  • This situation is so sad. It is scary to know how much of this there is. Hopefully things will be better in the very near future.

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An Orphan Heart

An Orphan Heart

 

Maureen while in the gang

Maureen while in the gang

Studies are replete linking gang involvement with children from dysfunctional families. Gangs prey on individuals who lack self-esteem, strong father figures, and family closeness.

Looking back, Maureen* agrees she fit the profile to a

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  • This is a testimony that would be beneficial to so many woman. Thank you for sharing.

  • Knowing several young girls who are in similar situations, this story gives me renewed hope for them! Thank you for sharing your life story!

  • Isn’t it amazing what we’ll do for acceptance. She’s an true miracle of God. Thanks Mel

  • What courage strength.. thanks for sharing this story..
    So many people can benefit from this amazing story of overcoming

  • Beautiful testimony!??? The Love of our Lord Jesus is truly “Amazing Grace”

  • I’m glad that Maureen realized that her life was not going in the right direction. I’m also glad she found a Godly man to help her through life.

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