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About Us
Mothers of Crime
Victims is a not for profit organization reaching out to mothers
who lost children specifically to gun violence to promote
healing and support for these devastated families. Mothers of
Crime Victims partners with various organizations to decrease
gun violence and to decrease the number of mothers inducted into
this group for which we did not volunteer and do note want to be
in. Mothers of Crime Victims was founded in March 2006 by Doris
J. Thomas when her 15-year old son Michael Anthony Bluntson Jr.
(Tony) was shot and killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February
24, 2006. Mothers who lost children to gun violence come
together weekly for support, encouragement and grief counseling.
United we grieve, united we heal, united we begin to live again.
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Grief counseling
is very important for our healing. There are no words to
describe the emptiness carved in our souls by the loss of our
children. When we lose a child, a part of us dies. Either we
celebrate the time we shared with our children or we die from
the pain of what could have, should have been. Every mother
grieves for her child differently but we all must grieve.
Healing does not mean we forget or “get over” our children. Our
thoughts and memories of our children are always with us.
Healing is necessary for us to become powerful women who allow
our pain to propel us to save the lives of other children.
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Mothers of Crime
Victims encourages mothers to take care of ourselves and
provides massages, manicures, pedicures and facials once a month
at no cost to us. These services are luxury to some, but
medicine to the soul of a mother who is overwhelmed with grief
and struggles to get out of bed each day.
Mothers of Crime
Victims acknowledges that a mother’s child is always her baby no
matter the age of her child, no matter when she lost her child
and no matter where the loss occurred. Mothers of Crime Victims
reaches out to mothers of all ages nation wide who lost children
to gun violence. Individually her story is just another sad
story. But our stories united become a powerful force that saves
lives and decrease the number of mothers who know the pain of
losing a child to gun violence. |
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