april is national child abuse prevention month. this cnn hero is drawing on her own horrible experience to save others. winona ward reaches out to women and children with the motto, have justice, will travel. when i was growing up on a rural back road, family violence was an accepted way of life. this is my mother. i m the baby. my father and brother richard and sister paul lean. my father would commonly abuse all of us. he raped me and beat my mother and my other siblings. when the neighbors heard screaming coming from our home they just turned their heads. for domestic violence victims in rural areas, it can be very devastating. they are out there on these back roads with no access to in town
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