Victoria Giron
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Amazing connections you have made. I hope this detail goes farther than this wonderful site. Please keep me updated. Here are my thoughts and my story:

There needs to be a database kept, just like sex offenders, for violent people. As soon as they are arrested for assault and battery, domestic abuse, etc. These men (and women) who prey on the weak and the innocent and they need to be tracked. We need to teach the young how to spot the signs. The subtle signs that escalate over time and lead to the time when they snap. By then, you have formed a relationship, “fallen in love” or worse, feel so sorry for them you cannot imagine them being without you. How will they survive. I can help them. I know I can. No. You cannot. Get help. Get out. Call your local women’s center. That is what I did after the third abusive relationship. The one that almost killed me, pulling my head back by my hair and held a knife up to my throat. After he left, yes, he threw the knife into the sink, grabbed his to go cup of coffee he brought with him and just left, I sat there for some time. Then I called my local woman’s center. She did not tell me what to do. She did not even tell me to call the police. She asked me what I wanted to do. I drove myself to the police station as I did not want to make a scene in my neighborhood. They picked him up, I pressed charges and he went to jail for three years. Maybe that is what he wanted. He is out now unless he has been re-arrested. He is the type of person who should be on that database as I was not his first or probably his last. He has the potential to kill. I told the courts this in a letter. I enrolled in therapy at the local Women’s Center and have been on a healing journey.

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    Born in Maryland, moved to NJ as a child, and life starts. More to come.