My Beautiful Daughter

My Daughter

My daughter was the victim of domestic violence on April 22, 99. My husband was also brutally attacked and almost died. He is now in a rehab nursing home trying to get back part of his life. My girl was 34 years old and had four children. This man that was suppossed to have loved her and cherished her beat her with a hammer and fractured her skull in five places. He attacked my husband when he went over to see why we couldn't get through on the phone. My girl lived for three days after the attack and I watched her 15 year old son never leave her bedside. I saw the pain in her 13 year daughter's eyes when she stood for hours holding her mother's hand. I watched her 12 year son and 10 year daughter pray for thier mother and try to understand how this could happen. I buried my child on my 54th birthday and have been empty since. I would like to see every woman who is in a violent relationship to stop and think. It can happen to you, it may happen to you. Please do what ever it takes to protect yourself and your family from such grief and devastation. My daughter had an order of protection and had followed every precaution she could, but the determination of her estranged husband was so great, so overwhelming, that he managed to get in and do what he had threatened to do for months. Laws need to be changed and more people need to take an interest in the growing problem of domestic violence. There is a way to accomplish this, there has to be. Women are dying and children are being ripped apart. I believe in the system, but it can stand some improvement. I will never hear my daughter's voice again or share a lunch or go shopping or to a computer show or any of the things we did together. I only have memories of the wonderful person she was and a terrible empty feeling. My Kim will never see her children grow and become the adults she had dreamed they would become. She will never hold her first grandchild, never see her son learn to drive or go to his prom. She will never hold her daughter's hands when they are getting married. All women out there, please take stock of the situation and run for your lives. It could happen to you.

Kimberly

Kim was a day care provider in her home. She loved children and took excellent care of her babies. Two toddlers and two infants were present during the attack. The two toddlers were locked in the bedroom and the infants were in the room the attack occurred in. My girl could have ran out the front door but she stayed because of the children. She thought of protecting them and not saving herself. The experience was traumatic for the toddlers but with counciling and lots of understanding they have learned to forget the bad and remember the good. Kim loved dolphins and collected figures of them. The photo at the top of the page was taken last Sept. when her and her husband and my husband and myself took a cruise to the Bahamas. We had the dolphin encounter and it was the thrill of her life. She told me once she was coming back as a dolphin and I really believe she may. She was a wonderful mother and daughter and I miss her so but I see so much of her in her 13 year daughter. Kimberly was also an organ donor and her kidneys have helped a woman and a man get a normal life back. She would have been happy to help.

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The trial date is Oct. 25th, 99. The state expects a delay of at least a year. They are asking for the death penalty. Unfornately, that will not bring Kim back and it won't take my pain away. He needs to be locked away forever and have the rest of his life to think about what he has done.

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