Day 2...Caskets or Roses for Valentines Day...choose LIFE over VIOLENCE

**My cousin's mom wrote this in response to my cousin's death and i think it's FAR better than any blog i could EVER write b/c it's from a mother's perspective.*** 

This is Domestic Violence

by Maya Sutton on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 6:55pm

(about my sister Nneka)-Written by my mother, Claudette Hill

This is domestic violence. My daughter Nneka, mother of 2 young children, was heinously and atrociously stabbed to death by her husband. Six months prior to her death he attempted to choke her to death. She spent that night with me. We took a walk and she showed me the bruises on her neck. I told her to get the children and leave. She had many excuses for staying, one being to not give up her new home. He lured her to him when she stepped out of the shower. He stabbed her when she approached him. While he was stabbing her she told him that “you don’t have to do this” and he continued. He broke one knife off in her and dragged her to the kitchen to get another knife to continue. He assumed his two year old was asleep, but he saw him stabbing her and later tried to awake his mother. He left her naked body on the floor dying with the children in bed while he went to get his passé in her car to make the murder appear gang related. He took money from her wallet for gas. He returned and wrote on the floor in her blood. Again he left with the children in bed supposedly asleep for several hours; he returned at 6:00 and reported a break in. Today is Valentine’s Day and the person who is physically or emotionally abusive probably is giving you a gift and declaring his love for you and promising that it will never happen again. He promised that same thing to Nneka. I spent Valentine’s Day of 2007 picking out my daughter’s pink casket. Don’t let this be you. GET OUT! 

Nneka’s mom.

 http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/1203480/#/vid1203480