Help save a mother and her children

Picture this:

You’re 18 years old. You’re at home, the home you grew up in, daydreaming about your upcoming wedding. You’re thinking about the bedekin and how you’ll get to see your chossen for the first time all week. You’re thinking about how Tatty will bentch you for the last time as a single girl. You have butterflies in your stomach. You can’t wait to build a life with your chossen. Everyone tells you he’s an amazing guy and that you’re so lucky. Your friends and family are so happy for you. You’re so happy for you! You think about being a loving wife to your perfect chossen and a mother to your future beautiful children.

You get married. You think life is perfect.

Until it isn’t.

Immediately after the wedding, he starts to lie about his comings and goings. He takes charge of the finances and doesn’t allow you to have access to any money. You’re only allowed to buy certain things from the grocery store. This isn’t how your father treated your mother. You’re confused. Then he starts to scream and yell. He starts to hit you. You buy makeup and learn how to cover the bruises.

Then he starts to hit your perfect, sweet, innocent children.

You try to leave with your children, but he always finds you. You fear for your life. Most importantly, you fear for your children’s lives. You go back. You do this repeatedly, but he keeps finding you and threatening you.

Then he starts forcing you to be intimate with him. You say you don’t want to and that you can’t, you’re a niddah, but he doesn’t care. He has his way with you.

Then he starts “lending you out” to his friends and other men. You’re forced to sleep with these men, even a few of them at the same time. You’re forced to sleep with them in front of him. You’re no longer a person but a sex slave. You learn to push down your emotions because, at this point, it’s about self-preservation. He promised you that if you slept with him and his friends, he’d stop beating the children.

He doesn’t keep his promise. You and the children escape, and Baruch Hashem, you get an Order of Protection. You just pray he listens to it.

This isn’t fiction. This is my client’s life. She is doing everything she can to help heal her children and herself while starting an enormous legal battle. She doesn’t have money for day-to-day essentials, let alone an attorney who can take on a case of this magnitude.

We are asking you, dear reader, to find it in your heart to donate to this worthy cause. Your money will go towards this woman and her four beautiful children. It will go towards her legal fees, keeping her children safe, and day-to-day living expenses.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart…

Yael Braun

Checks can be made to:

Chasdei shulem inc.

Ein. (Tax I'd) 874413961.

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