Grace: Her faith in people, broken after beating by ex-boyfriend, is restored by kindness

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140201/NEWS/140209876/1685#grace-her-faith-in-people-broken-after-beating-by-ex-boyfriend-is-restored-by-kindness

By Erin Grace Published Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 1:00 am / Updated at 5:41 pm



Two men still make Jacey Gengenbach cry.

One terrorized her. He drove his van into her west Omaha garage door. He kicked open her locked basement door. He broke her jaw and her nose and pummeled her face, concentrating on her right eye where she'd had a tumor removed. That man is now in jail. She can't say his name without getting sick.

The other man surprised her. He walked into her personal training business and handed her a card that told her she was strong and she shouldn't give up and she should keep moving forward. Inside the card was $500 in cash. That man is gone. He didn't stick around to see Jacey's reaction. He left only this name: “A Friend of Jesus.”

There have been 124 others like this second man who, in the past two weeks, have given money to this 37-year-old single mother in Omaha to help defray the medical, dental and therapy bills that were caused by the first man.

FULL story at link.

[Warpy]

1. He tried to kill her

I don't think he should be let out until he's in a wheelchair.

Really.

[hobbit709]

3. Wheelchair hell! Only in a box.

[RainDog]

2. It's a shame women have to expose themselves like this to fund medical help

How many other women have been in similar situations who didn't come forward to tell their stories, but, instead, were left to deal with poverty because of the psychological toll of the abuse they had suffered?

I actually know quite a few.

No two stories are the same, but they all involve abuse and the poverty that follows.

What kind of nation treats its women this way?