ABC News reports “Harrowing stories of women who were victims of domestic abuse and stayed in those violent relationships are flooding social media today.”
Beverly Gooden, a former victim of domestic violence, sparked a conversation online about why it’s difficult for women to leave and other abuse victims are sharing their stories using the hashtag, #WhyIStayed.
ABC News continues, reporting: “For over a year, I was physically abused by my husband,” Beverly Golden, the woman who says she created the hashtag, wrote on her blog.
She says she wanted to address the questions she heard about Rice’s wife, Janay Palmer Rice: “Why didn’t she leave? Why did she marry him? Why did she stay?”
Janay Rice put an online statement today calling her husband “the man I love,” decried the “unwanted” attention and declared on Instagram, “THIS IS OUR LIFE!”
You can see some examples of the tweets, below, followed by a news clip by ABC.
#whyIStayed I was 18 years old and he threatened to kill himself if I left. #whyILeft I was willing to take that chance before he got worse
— DC Debbie (@DCdebbie) September 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/yurhuckleberry/status/509336205230485504
I was embarrassed to admit to myself & family that I was a victim. #whyistayed
— Ahna Wyatt Adcox (@AhnaMatea) September 9, 2014
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