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Bluebag Media
Sonner's
concern: "It's the kids... they don't have a choice"
GREENVILLE – “A lot of the families I deal with now… the adults today
were children then in domestic violence homes.” Annie Sonner,
Coordinator of the Darke County Shelter from Violence, has been helping
families long enough – 24 years – to see the generational influence of
violence in the home.
Children from homes where domestic violence occurred, Sonner continued,
“are now looking for somebody to love, but they don’t check them out.
How will they treat you? Look at how they treat their mom!”
The Shelter was started in 1980 by Irene Winterrowd. “She was 70 years
old when she gave me the ‘key’ (to the post office box)… she was a huge
mother figure to me,” Sonner said. “She continued helping me long after
she retired.”
While some victims want the safety of the Shelter, others don’t...
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