NORFOLK — Sitting on the witness stand, the slight woman hunched her shoulders forward and spoke softly into the microphone, her long hair covering the side of her face where she’d been shot. The physical and psychological injuries she suffered that day in April 2020 — when 10 members of a gang she’d briefly belonged to took turns beating and strangling her, before pouring bleach down her .
Lucy Kooiman longed to do more for the battered and bruised women who fled their homes in the middle of the night for the safety of the domestic violence shelter in which she worked as a crisis counselor in her native Kenya.