We have a domestic violence task force here in Lubbock and I’m a member of that. “It’s not just the two involved parties,” she says, “It’s the kids who are seeing mom and dad fight, or boyfriend and girlfriend fight. After working as a patrol officer for years, she noticed the ripple effect domestic violence has in a community. About a year later she finally left him.Īccording to Michelle, “Sometimes the only person that a victim of abuse will hear is going to be a police officer, it’s going to be a friend, it might be a coworker, and that judgement of that one person, can be all it takes for that victim to say I’m not going to leave, because everybody’s going to judge me like this.”ĭetective Sadie Stevens works in the Domestic Violence Unit at the Lubbock Police Department. Michelle went back to her husband after her hospital stay, but the man’s open invitation planted a seed. “Had it not been for him,” Michelle says, “I don’t think that I would have left as soon as I did.” One of the reasons for this rate is a lack of support. On average, victims of abuse will leave seven times before finally leaving their abuser for good. Michelle recalls, “There was a financial account manager who was helping me with all my bills he gave me information on how to leave and said whenever you’re ready let me know.”
What started as a near-death experience, ended with a fresh start at life when she finally found the support she needed to leave her abuser for good. Eventually, her life was saved by the bite of a brown recluse spider.
Today on Beyond the Report, we meet Michelle Lewark who found herself isolated in an abusive relationship after running away with her boyfriend at 15.
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