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Each year, the killings of Minnesota women by their husbands,
boyfriends and other intimate partners are duly reported
to the public. Rarely do citizens glimpse the wider costs of
such crimes, particularly for the families grieving for mothers,
daughters and sisters lost to violence committed in the
name of love.
Over the past year, writer Maja Beckstrom and photographer
Ginger Pinson have followed one such family. Since Latisha
Barnes was killed by her boyfriend on Nov. 5, 2000,
the lives of her mother, brother and four small children
have been forever changed. A doting grandmother became mother
to four traumatized children. A troubled boy was forced to
share his mother's strained attention. And four small children
are growing up in the shadow of violent loss.
Government programs
sustain them. A murder trial sought justice. But the
burden of healing the past and stopping the contagion of
violence falls heaviest on a wounded family.
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