Fabiola Mijangos visits her recovering goddaughter, Johanna Orozco. (Photo Credit: Gus Chan/Cleveland Plain Dealer)
An 18-year-old girl named Johanna Orozco became a news story when her younger ex-boyfriend put a sawed-off shotgun to her jaw and pulled the trigger. But instead of ending her story, that shooting was only the beginning. Over the six months that followed, Johanna let Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Rachel Dissell and photographer Gus Chan into her life to tell the in-depth story both of a relationship’s turn to obsession and abuse, and of a strong young woman’s recovery. Nine front-page stories, along with online media available at cleveland.com/johanna, inspired dozens of teens and adults in abusive relationships to correspond with Johanna, and her story was used by the Domestic Violence Center in Cleveland to encourage other Latinas to raise their voices and get out of violent relationships.
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