Updated: December 21, 2020 2:01 PM CT | Published: December 20, 2020 4:00 AM CT
A Memphis victim of domestic violence stands in the glow of a Christmas tree in a Mid-South shelter. She escaped her abuser but is isolated from family over the holidays. Severe cases of domestic violence are on the rise during the pandemic. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to Daily Memphian)
She left him for good, she said, after he threw her against a wall, “and kicked me really hard in my stomach, where I was throwing up blood.”